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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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Comp. <strong>the</strong> Appendix on <strong>the</strong> Jewish<br />

text <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> LXX., <strong>and</strong> possibly draw his<br />

Interpretation <strong>of</strong> I^rophecy.<br />

own inferences. * <strong>The</strong> pipe was used both in feasts<br />

' This is a sort <strong>of</strong> paren<strong>the</strong>tic note by <strong>and</strong> at<br />

mourning. So <strong>the</strong> Meesianic hope<br />

8t. Luke. had both its joyoi}0 aa^ itf sqpniwtill<br />

nor brought your help Q we have mourned to yon,<br />

<strong>and</strong> ye have not CHAP, lamented'). But you thought<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Messianic time as children, XXVin <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />

us, as if we were your fellows, <strong>and</strong> shared your<br />

thoughts <strong>and</strong> purposes! And so when John came<br />

with his stem asceticism, you felt he was not one<br />

<strong>of</strong> you. He was in one direction outside your<br />

boundary-line, <strong>and</strong> I, as <strong>the</strong> Friend <strong>of</strong> sinners, in<br />

<strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r direction. <strong>The</strong> axe which he wielded you<br />

would have laid to <strong>the</strong> tree <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Gentile world,<br />

not to that <strong>of</strong> Israel <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> sin; <strong>the</strong> welcome <strong>and</strong>

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