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

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filled in <strong>the</strong> fourth Gospel with quite o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

substance. God is not afar <strong>of</strong>f, uncognisable by<br />

man, without properties, without name. He is <strong>the</strong><br />

Fa<strong>the</strong>r. Instead <strong>of</strong> a nebulous reflection <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Deity we have <strong>the</strong> Person <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Logos; not a<br />

Logos with <strong>the</strong> two potencies <strong>of</strong> goodness <strong>and</strong><br />

power, but full <strong>of</strong> grace <strong>and</strong> truth. <strong>The</strong> Gospel <strong>of</strong><br />

St. John also begins with a ' Bereshith'—but it is<br />

<strong>the</strong> <strong>the</strong>ological, not <strong>the</strong> cosmic Bereshith, when <strong>the</strong><br />

Logos was with God <strong>and</strong> was God. Matter is not<br />

pre-existent; far less is it evil. St. John strikes <strong>the</strong><br />

pen through Alex<strong>and</strong>rianism when he lays it down<br />

as <strong>the</strong> fundamental fact <strong>of</strong> New Testament history<br />

that * <strong>the</strong><br />

> A complement, not a supplement, as many oritics<br />

put it {.Broald, Wrizadcker, <strong>and</strong> even<br />

Hengftenherg) —least <strong>of</strong> all a rectification (Godet^<br />

Bvang. Joh. p. 638).<br />

' £eim (Leben Jesu von Nazara, i. a, pp. 112-114)<br />

fully recognises this; but I entirely differ from <strong>the</strong><br />

conclusions <strong>of</strong> his analytical comparison <strong>of</strong> Philo

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