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

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all <strong>the</strong> costly material ga<strong>the</strong>red into that house, <strong>of</strong><br />

which Jewish<br />

tradition could say, * He that has not seen <strong>the</strong><br />

Temple <strong>of</strong> Herod,<br />

fiai»B.4a has never known what beauty is.'° And<br />

yet Israel despised <strong>and</strong><br />

abhorred <strong>the</strong> builder! Nor could his apparent work<br />

for <strong>the</strong> God <strong>of</strong><br />

Israel have deceived <strong>the</strong> most credulous. In youth<br />

he had browbeaten<br />

<strong>the</strong> venerable Sanhedrin, <strong>and</strong> threatened <strong>the</strong> city<br />

with slaughter <strong>and</strong><br />

destruction; again <strong>and</strong> again had he murdered her<br />

venerable sages;<br />

he had shed like water <strong>the</strong> blood <strong>of</strong> her Asmonean<br />

princes, <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong>

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