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

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covetousness, were worthy successors <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> sons<br />

<strong>of</strong> Eli. In <strong>the</strong> Court <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Gentiles (or in its<br />

porches) sat <strong>the</strong> <strong>of</strong>ficial money-changers, who for<br />

a fixed discount changed all foreign coins into<br />

those <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Sanctuary. Here also was that great<br />

mart for sacrificial animals, <strong>and</strong> all that was<br />

requisite for <strong>of</strong>ferings. How <strong>the</strong> simple, earnest<br />

country people, who came to pay vows, or bring<br />

<strong>of</strong>ferings for purifying, must have wondered, <strong>and</strong><br />

felt oppressed in that atmosphere <strong>of</strong> strangely<br />

blended religious rigorism <strong>and</strong> utter worldliness;<br />

<strong>and</strong> how <strong>the</strong>y must have been taxed, imposed upon,<br />

<strong>and</strong> treated with utmost curtness, nay, rudeness, by<br />

those who laughed at <strong>the</strong>ir boorishness, <strong>and</strong><br />

despised <strong>the</strong>m as cursed, ignorant country people,<br />

little better than hea<strong>the</strong>ns, or, for that matter, than<br />

brute beasts. Here also <strong>the</strong>re lay about a crowd <strong>of</strong><br />

noisy beggars, unsightly from disease, <strong>and</strong><br />

damoroos for help. And close by passed <strong>the</strong><br />

luxurious scion <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> High-<br />

> I most take leave to refer to <strong>the</strong> Pftrt viii. p. 682<br />

ft, speaks <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> dimen-

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