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

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so both Eastern <strong>and</strong> Western Judaism may here<br />

have drawn from one <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> same source—we<br />

will not venture to suggest, how high up—<br />

I For want <strong>of</strong> h<strong>and</strong>ier material I moBt <strong>the</strong><br />

Kabbalah in <strong>the</strong> * History <strong>of</strong> thf take leave to refer<br />

to my brief sketch <strong>of</strong> Jewish l^atlon/ pp, 484-446.<br />

fHILO AND THE KAKRAT«AH.<br />

46<br />

CHAP. IV<br />

irhile each made Bach nae <strong>of</strong> it as inited <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

digtinctive tendencies ? At any rate <strong>the</strong> Kabbalah<br />

also, likening Scripture to a person, compares<br />

those who stody merely <strong>the</strong> letter, to <strong>the</strong>m who<br />

attend only to '— ' — <strong>the</strong> dress; those who<br />

consider <strong>the</strong> moral <strong>of</strong> a fact, to <strong>the</strong>m who attend to<br />

<strong>the</strong> body; while <strong>the</strong> initiated alone, who regard <strong>the</strong><br />

hidden meaning, are tilioee who attend to <strong>the</strong> soul.<br />

Again, as Philo, so <strong>the</strong> oldest part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Mishnah *

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