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

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with <strong>the</strong> fourth Gospel.<br />

' <strong>The</strong> student who has carefully considered <strong>the</strong><br />

views expressed by Philo about <strong>the</strong> Logos, <strong>and</strong><br />

analysed, as in <strong>the</strong> Appendix, <strong>the</strong> passages in <strong>the</strong><br />

Tar-gumim in which <strong>the</strong> word Memra occurs,<br />

cannot fail to perceive <strong>the</strong> immense difference in<br />

<strong>the</strong> presentation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Logos by St. John. Yet M.<br />

Renan^ in an article in <strong>the</strong> ' Contemporaiy Review'<br />

for September 1877, with utter disregard <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

historical evidence on <strong>the</strong> question, maintains not<br />

only <strong>the</strong> identity <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se three sets <strong>of</strong> ideas, bat<br />

actually grounds on it his argument against <strong>the</strong><br />

au<strong>the</strong>nticity <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> fourth Gospel. Considering <strong>the</strong><br />

importance <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> subject, it is not easy to speak<br />

with moderation <strong>of</strong> assertions so bold based<br />

on statements so entirely inaccurate.<br />

* Pr. Buoher^ whose book, Des Apo-stels<br />

Johannes Lehre vom Logos, deserves careful<br />

perusal, tries to trace <strong>the</strong> reason <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se<br />

peculiarities as indicated in <strong>the</strong> Prologue <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>

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