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

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estored. Herod was not <strong>the</strong> antitype, he was <strong>the</strong><br />

Barabbas, <strong>of</strong> David's Boyal Son.<br />

In o<strong>the</strong>r respects, also, <strong>the</strong> difierence was almost<br />

equally great. <strong>The</strong> four 'companion-like' hills on<br />

which <strong>the</strong> city was built,^ <strong>the</strong> •Pi.ozzii deep clefts<br />

by which it was surrounded, <strong>the</strong> Mount <strong>of</strong> Olives<br />

rising in <strong>the</strong> east, were <strong>the</strong> same as a thous<strong>and</strong><br />

years ago. <strong>The</strong>re, as <strong>of</strong> old were <strong>the</strong> Pool <strong>of</strong><br />

Siloam <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> royal gardens—nay, <strong>the</strong> very wall<br />

that had <strong>the</strong>n surrounded <strong>the</strong> city. And yet all was<br />

so altered as to be scarcely recognisable. <strong>The</strong><br />

ancient Jebusite fort, <strong>the</strong> City <strong>of</strong> David, Mount<br />

Zion,' was now <strong>the</strong> priests' quarter, Ophel, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

old royal palace <strong>and</strong> stables had been thrown into<br />

<strong>the</strong> Temple area—now com«<br />

' I do not here reckon <strong>the</strong> brief reign on <strong>the</strong><br />

traditional site, on <strong>the</strong> western bill<br />

<strong>of</strong> King Agrippa. <strong>of</strong> Jerusalem, but on <strong>the</strong> eastern,<br />

south

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