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

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measures, indeed, led to popular indignation, <strong>and</strong><br />

even to conspiracies <strong>and</strong> tumults,^ »Ant xr. a<br />

though not <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> same general <strong>and</strong> intense<br />

character, as when, at a •> >' later period, Pilate<br />

sought to introduce into Jerusalem images <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Emperor, or when <strong>the</strong> statue <strong>of</strong> Caligula was to be<br />

placed in <strong>the</strong> Temple. In connection with this, it is<br />

curious to notice that <strong>the</strong> Talmud, while on <strong>the</strong><br />

whole disapproving <strong>of</strong> attendance at <strong>the</strong>atres <strong>and</strong><br />

amphi<strong>the</strong>atres—chiefly on <strong>the</strong> ground that it<br />

implies ' sitting in <strong>the</strong> seat <strong>of</strong> scomers*' <strong>and</strong> might<br />

involve contributions to <strong>the</strong> maintenance <strong>of</strong> idolworship—does<br />

not expressly prohibit it, nor<br />

indeed speak veiry decidedly on <strong>the</strong> subject.®<br />

lfL*BiS?<br />

<strong>The</strong> views <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Rabbis in regard to pictorial<br />

representations are ^^SSSl^'^i still more<br />

interesting, as illustrating <strong>the</strong>ir abhorrence <strong>of</strong> all<br />

contact •***" '^^^ with idolatry. We mark here<br />

differences at two, if not at three J^^"otJf*^<br />

periods, according to <strong>the</strong> outward circumstances <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> people. <strong>The</strong> JJ^J'^J^is earliest <strong>and</strong> strictest

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