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

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• Si. John<br />

XiT.M<br />

plement, <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r three.* <strong>The</strong>re is no o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

Gtospel more Palestinian than this in its modes <strong>of</strong><br />

expression, allusions, <strong>and</strong> references. Yet we must<br />

all feel how thoroughly Hellenistic it also is in its<br />

oast,* in what it reports <strong>and</strong> what it omits—in<br />

short, in its whole aim; how adapted to Hellenist<br />

wants its presentation <strong>of</strong> deep central truths; how<br />

suitably, in <strong>the</strong> report <strong>of</strong> His Discourses—even so<br />

hr as <strong>the</strong>ir form is concerned—<strong>the</strong> promise was<br />

here fulfilled, <strong>of</strong> bringing all things to<br />

remembrance whatsoever He had said.* It is <strong>the</strong><br />

true light which shineth, <strong>of</strong> which <strong>the</strong> fall<br />

meridian-blaze lies on <strong>the</strong> Hellenist <strong>and</strong> Hellenic<br />

world. <strong>The</strong>re is Alex<strong>and</strong>rian form <strong>of</strong> thought not<br />

only in <strong>the</strong> whole conception, but in <strong>the</strong> Logos,'<br />

<strong>and</strong> in His presentation as <strong>the</strong> Light, <strong>the</strong> <strong>Life</strong>, <strong>the</strong><br />

Wellspring <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world.* But <strong>the</strong>se forms are

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