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

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idol-worship. Its wood wafi polluted; if used in<br />

baking, <strong>the</strong> bread was unclean; if a shuttle had<br />

been made <strong>of</strong> it, not only was all cloth woven on it<br />

forbidden, but if such had been inadvertently<br />

mixed with o<strong>the</strong>r pieces <strong>of</strong> cloth, or a garment<br />

made from it placed with o<strong>the</strong>r garments, <strong>the</strong>^<br />

whole became unclean. Jewish workmen were not<br />

to assist in building basilicas, nor stadia, nor<br />

places where judicial sentences were pronounced<br />

by <strong>the</strong> hea<strong>the</strong>n. Of course, it was not lawful to let<br />

houses or fields, nor to sell cattle to <strong>the</strong>m. Milk<br />

drawn by a hea<strong>the</strong>n, if a • Ab. zar. Jew had not<br />

been present to watch it,* bread <strong>and</strong> oil prepared<br />

by <strong>the</strong>m, were unlawful. <strong>The</strong>ir wine was wholly<br />

interdicted *—tie mere touch <strong>of</strong> a hea<strong>the</strong>n polluted<br />

a whole cask ; nay, even to put one's nose to<br />

hea<strong>the</strong>n wine was strictly prohibited!<br />

Painful as <strong>the</strong>se details are^ <strong>the</strong>y might be<br />

multiplied. And yet <strong>the</strong> bigotry <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se Rabbis<br />

was, perhaps, not worse than that <strong>of</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

sectaries. It was a painful logical necessity <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

system, against which <strong>the</strong>ir heart, no doubt, <strong>of</strong>ten

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