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

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promised Sonwaito oe<br />

CntOXJMOIBION AND NAlONa OF JOHN.<br />

167<br />

oop <strong>of</strong> prophecy which Isaiah had placed empty on<br />

<strong>the</strong> Holy TaUe, CfBiP. waiting for <strong>the</strong> time <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

end, was now full filled, up to its brim, IV with <strong>the</strong><br />

new wine <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Kingdom. ' *<br />

Meanwhile <strong>the</strong> long-looked*for event had taken<br />

place in <strong>the</strong> home <strong>of</strong> Zacharias. No domestic<br />

solemnity so important or so joyoos as that in<br />

which, by circumcision, <strong>the</strong> child had, as it were,<br />

laid upon it <strong>the</strong> yoke <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Law, with all <strong>of</strong> duty<br />

<strong>and</strong> privilege which this implied. Even <strong>the</strong><br />

circumstanoe, that it took place at early morning*<br />

might *Pei.4c indicate this. It was, so tradition has<br />

it, as if <strong>the</strong> fa<strong>the</strong>r had acted sacrificially as High-<br />

Priest,^ <strong>of</strong>fering his child to God in gratitude <strong>and</strong><br />

*> Yaikoi sh. love; ^ <strong>and</strong> it symbolised this deeper<br />

moral truth, that man must by .Tanch. p. his own

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