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

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Palestine are broken by <strong>the</strong> wide, rich plain <strong>of</strong><br />

Jezreel, which severs Galilee from <strong>the</strong> rest <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

l<strong>and</strong>. This was always <strong>the</strong> great battle-field <strong>of</strong><br />

Israel. Appropriately, it is shut in as between<br />

mountain-walls. That along <strong>the</strong> north <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> plain is<br />

formed by <strong>the</strong> mountains <strong>of</strong> Lower Galilee, cleft<br />

about <strong>the</strong> middle by a valley that widens, till, after<br />

an hour's journey, we st<strong>and</strong> within an enclosure<br />

which seems almost one <strong>of</strong> Nature's own<br />

sanctuaries. As in an amphi<strong>the</strong>atre, fifteen hill-tops<br />

rise around. That to <strong>the</strong> west is <strong>the</strong> highest—about<br />

500 feet. On its lowei slopes nestles a little town,<br />

its narrow streets ranged like terraces. This is<br />

Nazareth, probably <strong>the</strong> ancient Sarid (or En-<br />

Sarid),<br />

' <strong>The</strong> object which <strong>the</strong> Evangelists had tains no<br />

biography. <strong>The</strong> tw<strong>of</strong>old object in view was<br />

certainly not that <strong>of</strong> bio- <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir narratives is<br />

indicated by St. Luko graphy, even as <strong>the</strong> Old<br />

Testament con- i. i, <strong>and</strong> by St. John xx. 81.<br />

VOL. I. L

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