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

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termine <strong>the</strong>ir exact Hebrew equivalents. <strong>The</strong> LXX.<br />

render by <strong>the</strong>se two terms not always <strong>the</strong> same<br />

Hebrew words. Comp. Qen. xxvi. 5 with Dent. iv.<br />

40. <strong>The</strong>y cannot refer to <strong>the</strong> division <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Law<br />

into affirmative (248) <strong>and</strong> prohibitlTe (365)<br />

comm<strong>and</strong>ments.<br />

* <strong>The</strong>re is, p^haps, no point on which <strong>the</strong> Rabbinic<br />

Law is more explicit or stringent than on that <strong>of</strong><br />

tenderest regard for <strong>the</strong> feelings <strong>of</strong> o<strong>the</strong>rs,<br />

especiaUj <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> poor.<br />

sectioQ than on a matter, which mnBt almost daily,<br />

<strong>and</strong> most painfultyy OHAP. have forced itself on<br />

Zacharias <strong>and</strong> Elisabeth. <strong>The</strong>re were among HI <strong>the</strong><br />

Rabbis those who, remembering <strong>the</strong> words <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

prophet,* spoke ' ' ' in most pa<strong>the</strong>tic language <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> wrong <strong>of</strong> parting from <strong>the</strong> wife <strong>of</strong> le youth,^<br />

aad <strong>the</strong>re were those to whom <strong>the</strong> bare fact <strong>of</strong><br />

childlessness ^aittw^ rendered separation a<br />

religions dnty.^ Elisabeth was childless. For<br />

Teb.64« many a year tiiis must have been <strong>the</strong><br />

burden <strong>of</strong> Zacharias' prayer; <strong>the</strong> burden also <strong>of</strong>

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