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

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Philo, however, ascribes also to Qod <strong>the</strong> creation<br />

<strong>of</strong> niatter (de 8omn. i. 13).<br />

* So <strong>the</strong> Talmndists certainly understood it, Jer.<br />

Chag. ii 1.<br />

■ Ck)mp. Orimm, £zeg. H<strong>and</strong>b. zu d. Apokr., Lief.<br />

vi. pp. 56, 66.<br />

* <strong>The</strong>y were arranged into those concerning <strong>the</strong><br />

Maasty Bereahith (Creation), <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Mousey<br />

Merkabhah, ' <strong>the</strong> chariot' <strong>of</strong> Bzekiel's vision<br />

(Providence in <strong>the</strong> widest sense, or Qod's<br />

manifestation in <strong>the</strong> created world).<br />

■ Of <strong>the</strong> four celebrities who entered <strong>the</strong> ^Pudes,'<br />

or encloeed Pamdise <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong>osophic speculation, one became an apostate,<br />

ano<strong>the</strong>r died, a third went wrong (Ben Soma), <strong>and</strong><br />

only Akiba esci^ied unsca<strong>the</strong>d, according to <strong>the</strong><br />

Scripture saying, *Draw me, <strong>and</strong> we will run'<br />

(Chag. 14 b), ' * It is not lawful to enter upog <strong>the</strong>

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