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

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from <strong>the</strong> promise which, in Deut. xxxiii. 11,<br />

foUows on <strong>the</strong> service referred to in verse 10. But<br />

probably a spiritual application was also intended.<br />

ZAGHARtAS OF 'THE CX)tJBS£ OF ABIA.'<br />

18fi<br />

castom was, sach lot should be preceded by prayer<br />

<strong>and</strong> confession <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir fSuth' on <strong>the</strong> part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

assembled priests.<br />

It was <strong>the</strong> first week in October 748 A.U.G.,' that<br />

is, in <strong>the</strong> sixth year before our present era, when *<br />

<strong>the</strong> course <strong>of</strong> Abia' •—^<strong>the</strong> eighth in <strong>the</strong> original<br />

arrangement <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> weekly service—^was on duty<br />

in <strong>the</strong> Temple. True this, as indeed most <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

twenty-four * courses' into which <strong>the</strong> Priesthood<br />

had been arranged, could not claim identity, only<br />

continuity, with those whose names <strong>the</strong>y bore. For<br />

only three, or at most four, <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ancient * courses'<br />

had returned from Babylon. But <strong>the</strong> original<br />

arrangement had been preserved, <strong>the</strong> names <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>

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