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

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four to David), as also, <strong>the</strong> duration <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> time for<br />

marriage festivities, <strong>and</strong> for mourning. But<br />

evidently <strong>the</strong>se are vague statements, with <strong>the</strong><br />

object <strong>of</strong> tracing traditionalism <strong>and</strong> its<br />

observances to primsBval times, even as legfend<br />

had it, that Adam was bom circumcised,* <strong>and</strong> later<br />

*Miiir. writers that he had kept all <strong>the</strong> ordinances.<br />

Touhoa p«.<br />

ix 6. 6(L<br />

But o<strong>the</strong>r principles apply to <strong>the</strong> traditions, from<br />

Moses down- J^^^^JJ* l^ wards. According to <strong>the</strong><br />

Jewish view, God had given Moses on B.Nftth.j<br />

Mount Sinai alike <strong>the</strong> oral <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> written Law,<br />

that is, <strong>the</strong> Law with all its interpretations <strong>and</strong><br />

applications. From Ex. zx. 1, it was inferred, that<br />

God had communicated to Moses <strong>the</strong> Bible, <strong>the</strong><br />

Mishnah, <strong>the</strong> Talmud, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Haggadah, even to<br />

that which scholars would in latest times<br />

propound.* In answer to <strong>the</strong> somewhat natural<br />

objection, why <strong>the</strong> Bible alone had been written, it<br />

was said that Moses had proposed to write down

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