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

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enjoy a comfortable dinner <strong>of</strong> fresh or snu)ked fish<br />

with garlic, <strong>and</strong> his pudding, washed down with<br />

<strong>the</strong> favourite Egyptian barley beer, up to <strong>the</strong><br />

millionaire bilker, who owned a palace in <strong>the</strong> city<br />

<strong>and</strong> a villa by <strong>the</strong> canal that connected Alex<strong>and</strong>ria<br />

with Canobus. What a jostling crowd <strong>of</strong> all nations<br />

in <strong>the</strong> streets, in <strong>the</strong> market (where, according to<br />

<strong>the</strong> joke <strong>of</strong> a contemporary, anything might be got<br />

except snow), or by <strong>the</strong> harbours; what cool<br />

shades, delicious retreats, vast halls, magnificent<br />

libraries, where <strong>the</strong> savants <strong>of</strong> Alex<strong>and</strong>ria<br />

assembled <strong>and</strong> taught every conceivable branch <strong>of</strong><br />

learning, <strong>and</strong> its far-famed physicians prescribed<br />

> <strong>The</strong> average passage from Alex<strong>and</strong>ria to Puteoli<br />

was twelve days, <strong>the</strong> ships touohing at Malta <strong>and</strong><br />

in Sicily. It was in such a ship, <strong>the</strong> ' Castor <strong>and</strong><br />

Pollux,' oarrying wheat, that St. Paul sailed from<br />

Malta to Puteoli, where it would be among <strong>the</strong> first<br />

arrivals <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> season.<br />

« <strong>The</strong>y bore, painted on <strong>the</strong> two sides <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> prow,<br />

<strong>the</strong> emblems <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> gods to whom <strong>the</strong>y were

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