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

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store. When <strong>the</strong>y were all filled. He that had<br />

provided <strong>the</strong> meal bade <strong>the</strong>m ga<strong>the</strong>r up <strong>the</strong><br />

fragments before each company. So doing, each <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> twelve had his basket filled. Here also we<br />

have ano<strong>the</strong>r life-touch. Those 'baskets'<br />

(ic6if>ivoi), known in Jewish writings by a<br />

similar name (Kephiphah), made <strong>of</strong> wicker or<br />

willows * (nnyp ^P^C^?)) were in common use,<br />

but considered <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> *cvnni>. poorest kind.*<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is a sublimeness <strong>of</strong> contrast that passes<br />

description between this feast to <strong>the</strong> five thous<strong>and</strong>,<br />

besides women <strong>and</strong> children, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> poor's<br />

provision <strong>of</strong> barley bread <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> two small fishes;<br />

<strong>and</strong>, again, between <strong>the</strong> quantity left <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> coarse<br />

wicker baskets in which it was stored. Nor do we<br />

forget to draw mentally <strong>the</strong> parallel between this<br />

Messianic feast <strong>and</strong> that banquet <strong>of</strong> * <strong>the</strong> latter<br />

days' which Rabbinism pictured so realistically.<br />

But as <strong>the</strong> wondering multitude watched, as <strong>the</strong><br />

diaciples ga<strong>the</strong>red from<br />

* Not an Egyptian basket, as even Jost <strong>The</strong> word is<br />

derived from *>Yp (If etMr)^ translates in ms

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