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

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* Thus, in B. Mez. 86 a, we read <strong>of</strong> a <strong>the</strong> subject <strong>of</strong><br />

purity, when Rabbah was diBcnssion in <strong>the</strong><br />

heavenly Academy on summoned to heayen by<br />

death, although<br />

JUDAISM AND HEATHENISM: THEIR GOAL.<br />

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even <strong>the</strong> revolting. Miraculous cores, miraculous<br />

supplies, miraculous CHAP, help, all for <strong>the</strong> glory<br />

<strong>of</strong> great Rabbis,^ who by a look or word can vm<br />

kill, <strong>and</strong> restore to life. At <strong>the</strong>ir bidding <strong>the</strong> eyes <strong>of</strong><br />

a rival fall out, ' ' <strong>and</strong> are again inserted. Nay, such<br />

was <strong>the</strong> veneration due to Rabbis, that R. Joshua<br />

used to kiss <strong>the</strong> stone on which R. Eliezer had sat<br />

<strong>and</strong> lectured, saying: ^ This stone is like Mount<br />

Sinai, <strong>and</strong> he who sat on it like <strong>the</strong> Ark.' Modem<br />

ingenuity has, indeed, striven to suggest deeper<br />

symbolical meaning for such stories. It should own<br />

<strong>the</strong> terrible contrast existing side by side:<br />

Hebrewism <strong>and</strong> Judaism, <strong>the</strong> Old Testament <strong>and</strong><br />

traditionalism; <strong>and</strong> it should recognise its deeper

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