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

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* That term is <strong>of</strong>ten used by Onkelos. Besides, <strong>the</strong><br />

expression itself is *<strong>the</strong> Memra <strong>of</strong> Jehovah.'<br />

* Onkelos only once (in Kx. iv. 24) paraphrases<br />

Jehovah by * Malakha.'<br />

' Metatron, ei<strong>the</strong>r « ficr^ 0ft6vov, or lirrk riparror.<br />

In <strong>the</strong> Talmud it is applied to <strong>the</strong> Angel <strong>of</strong> Jehovah<br />

(Ex. xxiii. 20), *<strong>the</strong> Prince <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> World,' * <strong>the</strong><br />

Prince <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Face' or * <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Presence,' as <strong>the</strong>y<br />

call him ; he who sits in <strong>the</strong> innermost chamber<br />

before God, while <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r angels only hear His<br />

comm<strong>and</strong>s from be-MndflMTeQCOhag. 16a; 16a/<br />

Toseft ad Chull. 60 a ; Jeb. 16 b). This Metatron <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> Talmud <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Kabbalah is also <strong>the</strong> Adam<br />

Qadfiion, or archetypal man.<br />

* Of deep interest is Onkelos' render* ing <strong>of</strong> Deut.<br />

xxxiii. 27, where, instead <strong>of</strong> * uDdemeath are <strong>the</strong><br />

everlasting arms,' Onkelos has, *<strong>and</strong> by His<br />

Memra was <strong>the</strong> world created,' exactly as in St.<br />

John i. 10. Now this divergence <strong>of</strong> Onkelos from<br />

<strong>the</strong> Hebrew text seems unaccountable. m,ner,

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