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

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ut forms one <strong>of</strong> a series <strong>of</strong> similar manifestations.<br />

It is closely connected both with what had passed<br />

on <strong>the</strong> previous evening, <strong>and</strong> what was to follow;<br />

it is told with a minuteness <strong>of</strong> detail, <strong>and</strong> with such<br />

marked absence <strong>of</strong> any attempt at gloss, adornment,<br />

apology, or self-glorification, as to give <strong>the</strong><br />

narrative (considered simply as such) <strong>the</strong> stamp <strong>of</strong><br />

truth ; while, lastly, it contains much that lifts <strong>the</strong><br />

story from <strong>the</strong> merely miraculous into <strong>the</strong> domain<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> sublime <strong>and</strong> deeply spiritual. As regards<br />

what may be termed its credibility, this at least<br />

» Probably from 3 to about 6 A.M.<br />

' Even <strong>the</strong> beautiful allegory into which I[eim<br />

would resolve it—that <strong>the</strong> Church in her need<br />

knows not, whe<strong>the</strong>r her Saviour may not come in<br />

<strong>the</strong> last watch <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> night—entirely surrenders <strong>the</strong><br />

whole narrative. And why should three Evangelists<br />

have invented such a btory, in order to teach or<br />

ra<strong>the</strong>r disguise a doctrine, which is o<strong>the</strong>rwise so<br />

clearly expressed throughout <strong>the</strong> whole New<br />

Testament, as to form ene <strong>of</strong> its primazy

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