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

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BOOK not typical facts; <strong>the</strong>y point to a Prototypal<br />

Idea in <strong>the</strong> eternal past, I not to an Antitypal Person<br />

<strong>and</strong> Fact in history; <strong>the</strong>re is no cleansing * ' <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

soul by blood, no sprinkling <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Mercy Seat, no<br />

access for all through <strong>the</strong> rent veil into <strong>the</strong><br />

immediate Presence <strong>of</strong> Otod; nor yet a quickening<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> soul from dead works to serve <strong>the</strong> living<br />

God. If <strong>the</strong> argumentation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Epistle to <strong>the</strong><br />

Hebrews is Alex<strong>and</strong>rian, it is an Alex<strong>and</strong>rianism<br />

which is overcome <strong>and</strong> past, which only furnishes<br />

<strong>the</strong> form, not <strong>the</strong> substance; <strong>the</strong> vessel, not its<br />

contents. <strong>The</strong> closer H refore <strong>the</strong> outward<br />

similarity, <strong>the</strong> greater is <strong>the</strong> contrast in substance.<br />

<strong>The</strong> vast difference between Alex<strong>and</strong>rianism <strong>and</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> New Testament will appear still .more clearly<br />

in <strong>the</strong> views <strong>of</strong> Philo on Comnology <strong>and</strong><br />

Anthropology. In regard to <strong>the</strong> former, his results<br />

in some respects Tun parallel to those <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

students <strong>of</strong> mysticism in <strong>the</strong> Talmud, <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Kabbalists. Toge<strong>the</strong>r with <strong>the</strong> Stoic view, which<br />

represented Otod as ' <strong>the</strong> active cause' <strong>of</strong> this<br />

world, <strong>and</strong> matter as ' <strong>the</strong> passive,' Philo holds <strong>the</strong>

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