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

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people, <strong>the</strong>y would appear<br />

BOOK great in <strong>the</strong> end, <strong>and</strong> God would exact<br />

payment for <strong>the</strong>ir sins as a man I does from his<br />

friends, taking little sums at a time. It was in this ' '<br />

sense, that <strong>the</strong> Rabbis employed that sublime<br />

figure, representing <strong>the</strong> Church as one body, <strong>of</strong><br />

which all <strong>the</strong> members suffered <strong>and</strong> joyed toge<strong>the</strong>r,<br />

which St. Paul adopted <strong>and</strong> applied in a vastly<br />

different <strong>and</strong><br />

»Eph.iT.i« spiritual sense.*<br />

If, on <strong>the</strong> one h<strong>and</strong>, <strong>the</strong> pre-eminence <strong>of</strong> Israel<br />

depended on <strong>the</strong> L<strong>and</strong>, <strong>and</strong>, on <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r, that <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

L<strong>and</strong> on <strong>the</strong> presence <strong>of</strong> Israel in it, <strong>the</strong> Rabbinical<br />

complaint was, indeed, well grounded, that its<br />

^boundaries were becoming narrow.' We can<br />

scarcely expect any accurate demarcation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m,<br />

since <strong>the</strong> question, what belonged to it, was<br />

determined by ritual <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>ological, not by<br />

geographical considerations. Not only <strong>the</strong><br />

immediate neighbourhood (as in <strong>the</strong> case <strong>of</strong>

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