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

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country. On three things, Simon was wont to say,<br />

<strong>the</strong> permanency <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> (Jewish 7) world depends:<br />

on <strong>the</strong> Torah (faithfulness to <strong>the</strong> Law <strong>and</strong> its<br />

pursuit), on worship (<strong>the</strong> non-participation in<br />

Grecianism), <strong>and</strong> on works <strong>of</strong> righteousness.*<br />

<strong>The</strong>y were dark times, when God's 'Ab.!.!<br />

persecuted people were tempted to think, that it<br />

might be vain to serve Him, in which Antigonus<br />

had it: ' Be not like servants who serve <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

master for <strong>the</strong> sake <strong>of</strong> reward, but be like servants<br />

who serve <strong>the</strong>ir lord without a view to <strong>the</strong> getting<br />

<strong>of</strong> reward, <strong>and</strong> let <strong>the</strong> fear <strong>of</strong> heaven be upon you.''<br />

After <strong>the</strong>se two names come those <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> so-<br />

'Ab^L; called five Ztigoth, or ' couples,' <strong>of</strong> whom<br />

Hillel <strong>and</strong> Shammai are <strong>the</strong> last. Later tradition has<br />

represented <strong>the</strong>se successive couples as,<br />

I Zoni has well pointed oat that, if stating that,<br />

except for special reasons, I<br />

in Ab. i. 4 <strong>the</strong> first * couple * is said to shall not<br />

refer to previous writers on

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