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

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artificial method <strong>of</strong> exegesis; or added to it, by<br />

way <strong>of</strong> amplification <strong>and</strong> for safety's sake; or,<br />

finally, legalised customs. <strong>The</strong>y provided for<br />

every possible <strong>and</strong> impossible case, entered into<br />

every detail <strong>of</strong> private, family, <strong>and</strong> public life; <strong>and</strong><br />

with iron logic, unbending rigour, <strong>and</strong> most minute<br />

analysis pursued <strong>and</strong> dominated man, turn whi<strong>the</strong>r<br />

he might, laying on him a yoke which was truly<br />

unbearable. <strong>The</strong> return which it <strong>of</strong>iered was <strong>the</strong><br />

pleasure <strong>and</strong> distinction <strong>of</strong> knowledge, <strong>the</strong><br />

acquisition <strong>of</strong> righteousness, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> final<br />

attainment <strong>of</strong> rewards; one <strong>of</strong> its chief advantages<br />

over our modem traditionalism, that it was<br />

expressly forbidden to draw inferences from <strong>the</strong>se<br />

traditions, which should have <strong>the</strong> force <strong>of</strong> fresh<br />

legal determinations.*<br />

In describing <strong>the</strong> historical growth <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Haidkhdh* we may<br />

elders have more weight than those <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> prophets<br />

* (Jer. Ber. i. 7); *an <strong>of</strong>fence against <strong>the</strong> sayings <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> Scribes is worse than one against those <strong>of</strong>

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