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

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activity in this sentence ascribed to <strong>the</strong>m: ' Be<br />

careful in judgment, set up many Tahnidimy <strong>and</strong><br />

make a hedge about <strong>the</strong> Torah (Law)/<br />

In <strong>the</strong> course <strong>of</strong> time this rope <strong>of</strong> s<strong>and</strong> dissolved.<br />

<strong>The</strong> High-Priest, Simon <strong>the</strong> Just^^ is already<br />

designated as ^ <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> remnants <strong>of</strong> • in <strong>the</strong> be. <strong>the</strong><br />

Great Assembly.' But even this expression does<br />

not necessarily <strong>the</strong> thi^^ imply that he actually<br />

belonged to it. In <strong>the</strong> troublous times which ***" "^<br />

^'^ followed his Pontificate, <strong>the</strong> sacred study<br />

seems to have been left to solitary individuals. <strong>The</strong><br />

Mishnic tractate Aboth, which records ' <strong>the</strong> sayings<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Fa<strong>the</strong>rs,' here gives us only <strong>the</strong> name <strong>of</strong><br />

Antigonus <strong>of</strong> Socho. It is significant, that for <strong>the</strong><br />

first time we now meet a Greek name among<br />

Babbinic authorities, toge<strong>the</strong>r with an indistinct<br />

allusion to his disciples.** <strong>The</strong> long interval<br />

between Simon <strong>the</strong> Just <strong>and</strong> *Ab.i8, Antigonus <strong>and</strong><br />

his disciples, brings us to <strong>the</strong> terrible time <strong>of</strong><br />

Antiochus Epiphanes <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> great Syrian<br />

persecution. <strong>The</strong> very sayings attributed to <strong>the</strong>se<br />

two sound like an echo <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> political state <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>

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