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

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» This was <strong>the</strong> eighth course in <strong>the</strong> original<br />

arrangement (I Chr. xxiv. 10).<br />

* Acooidizig to St. Luke i. 7, <strong>the</strong>y were<br />

both * well stricken in years.' But from Aboth v.<br />

21 we learn, that sixty years wa« considered ' <strong>the</strong><br />

commencement <strong>of</strong> aged-ness.'<br />

* According to tradition, about one-fourth <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

priesthood was resident in Jericho. But, even<br />

limiting this to those who were in <strong>the</strong> habit <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>of</strong>ficiating, <strong>the</strong> statement seems greatly<br />

exaggerated. . • Comp. Ber. 44 a ; Pes. 49 a ;<br />

Vayyikra R. 4.<br />

BOOK district, appears incidentally from <strong>the</strong><br />

narrative.* It would, indeed,<br />

n have been strange had it been o<strong>the</strong>rwise. <strong>The</strong>re<br />

was much in <strong>the</strong><br />

•StLakeL P^P^^^ habits <strong>of</strong> thought, as well as in <strong>the</strong><br />

<strong>of</strong>fice <strong>and</strong> privileges <strong>of</strong>

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