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

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least bound to furnish some historical basis for <strong>the</strong><br />

origination <strong>of</strong> such an unlikely legend. Whence<br />

was <strong>the</strong> idea <strong>of</strong> it first derived ? How did it find<br />

Kuch ready acceptance in <strong>the</strong> Church ? Weiss has,<br />

at considerable length, <strong>and</strong> very fully, shown tiie<br />

impossibility <strong>of</strong> its origin ei<strong>the</strong>r in Jewiidi or<br />

hea<strong>the</strong>n legend.<br />

From bsthlehem to jobdak.<br />

BOOK Three montlis had passed since <strong>the</strong> Virgin-<br />

Mo<strong>the</strong>r entered <strong>the</strong><br />

II home <strong>of</strong> her kinswoman. And now she most<br />

return to Nazareth. ' ' ' Soon Elisabeth's neighbours<br />

<strong>and</strong> kinsfolk would ga<strong>the</strong>r with sympa<strong>the</strong>tic joy<br />

around a home which, as <strong>the</strong>y thought, had<br />

experienced unexpected mercy—little thinking,<br />

how wide-reaching its consequences would be.<br />

But <strong>the</strong> Virgin-Mo<strong>the</strong>r must not be exposed to <strong>the</strong><br />

publicity <strong>of</strong> such meetings. However conscious <strong>of</strong><br />

what had led to her condition, it must have been as<br />

<strong>the</strong> first sharp pang <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> sword which was to

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