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

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Flaoc. ii j>. 634. Temple was in <strong>the</strong> estimatUm <strong>of</strong><br />

Israel,<br />

THE PREPARATION FOR THE GOSPEL.<br />

BOOK I<br />

• War tL 9. I; oomp. ii. .14.1<br />

st<strong>and</strong>, how, on some great feast, as Josephns states<br />

on sufficient anthority, <strong>the</strong> population <strong>of</strong> Jerusalem<br />

—within its ecclesiastical boundaries—could<br />

have swelled to <strong>the</strong> enormous number <strong>of</strong> nearly<br />

three millions.*<br />

And still, <strong>the</strong>re was an even stronger bond in <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

common Aope. That hope pointed <strong>the</strong>m all,<br />

wherever scattered, back to Palestine. To <strong>the</strong>m <strong>the</strong><br />

coming <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Messiah</strong> undoubtedly implied <strong>the</strong><br />

restoration <strong>of</strong> Israel's kingdom, <strong>and</strong>, as a first part<br />

in it, <strong>the</strong> return <strong>of</strong> ' <strong>the</strong> dispersed.' * Indeed, every<br />

devout Jew prayed, day by day: ' Proclaim by Thy<br />

loud trumpet our deliverance, <strong>and</strong> raise up a

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