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

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oken stones, we can underst<strong>and</strong> how a religion,<br />

which proclaimed a hope so different, must have<br />

spoken to <strong>the</strong> hearts <strong>of</strong> many even at Rome, <strong>and</strong><br />

much more, how that blessed assurance <strong>of</strong> life <strong>and</strong><br />

immortality, which Christianity afterwards<br />

brought, could win its thous<strong>and</strong>s, though it were at<br />

<strong>the</strong> cost <strong>of</strong> poverty, shame, torture, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> arena.<br />

W<strong>and</strong>ering from graveyard to graveyard, <strong>and</strong><br />

deciphering <strong>the</strong> records <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> dead, we can almost<br />

read <strong>the</strong> history <strong>of</strong> Israel in <strong>the</strong> days <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

CaDsars, or when Paul <strong>the</strong> prisoner set foot on <strong>the</strong><br />

soil <strong>of</strong> Italy. When St. Paul, on <strong>the</strong> journey <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> *<br />

Castor <strong>and</strong> Pollux,* touched at Syracuse, he<br />

would, during his stay <strong>of</strong> three days, find<br />

1 Comp. Friedldnder, u. s. vol. iii. p. 510. * Midr.<br />

B. on Ex. 86.<br />

SCTlU.17<br />

70 THE PREPARATION FOR THE GOSPEL.

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