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

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world, so fiir as Jewish Hellenism could bring it<br />

to <strong>the</strong> threshold <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Church. This Hellenistic <strong>and</strong><br />

Hellenic world now stood in waiting to enter it,<br />

though as it were by its nor<strong>the</strong>rn porch, <strong>and</strong> to be<br />

baptized at its font. All this must have forced itself<br />

on <strong>the</strong> mind <strong>of</strong> St. John, residing in <strong>the</strong> midst <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong>m at Ephesus, even as St. Paul's Epistles<br />

contain almost as many allusions to Hellenism as<br />

to Rabbinism.' And so <strong>the</strong> fourth Gospel became,<br />

not <strong>the</strong> supplement, but <strong>the</strong> com-<br />

OHAP. IV<br />

* First expressed by JMlitzseh (BibL Gomm. IL d.<br />

Proph. Jes. p. 414), <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>n adopted bj Oehler<br />

(TbeoL d. A. Test. ToL iL pp. 270^272).<br />

* <strong>The</strong> twa fundamental principles in <strong>the</strong> histoiy <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> ELingdom <strong>of</strong> God are selection <strong>and</strong><br />

developmetU: It is sorely remarkable, not strange,<br />

that <strong>the</strong>se are also <strong>the</strong> two fundamental truths in <strong>the</strong><br />

history <strong>of</strong> that oUier Kingdom <strong>of</strong> Qod, Nature, if<br />

modem science has read <strong>the</strong>m ooirectly. <strong>The</strong>se two

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