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

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were carried by special messengers,® in a kind <strong>of</strong><br />

post-bag. Nay, <strong>the</strong>re seem to have been •shaUbus.<br />

4 some sort <strong>of</strong> receiving-<strong>of</strong>fices in towns,' <strong>and</strong><br />

even something resem- fshaub. it* bling our<br />

parcel-post.' And, strange as it may sound, even a<br />

species <strong>of</strong> t Bodi newspapers, or broadsheets,<br />

appears to have been circulating (IftftA-tabhin)^<br />

not allowed, however, on <strong>the</strong> Sabbath, unless <strong>the</strong>y<br />

treated <strong>of</strong> public affidrs.^ ^tob.<br />

Of course, it is difficult accurately to determine<br />

which <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se things were in use in <strong>the</strong> earliest<br />

times, or else introduced at a later period.<br />

Perhaps, however, it was safer to bring <strong>the</strong>m into a<br />

picture <strong>of</strong> Jewish society. Undoubted, <strong>and</strong>, alas,<br />

too painful evidence comes to us <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

luxuriousness at Jerusalem at that time, <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

moral corruption to which it led. It seems only too<br />

clear, that such commentations as <strong>the</strong> Talmud^<br />

gives <strong>of</strong> Is. iii. 16-24, in regard to <strong>the</strong> ifsbMk<br />

manners <strong>and</strong> modes <strong>of</strong> attraction practised by a<br />

certain class <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> female population in<br />

Jerusalem, applied to a far later period than that <strong>of</strong>

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