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

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joice in <strong>the</strong> issue <strong>of</strong> his loins, <strong>and</strong> his mo<strong>the</strong>r in <strong>the</strong><br />

fruit <strong>of</strong> her womb, as it is written in Prov. xxiii.<br />

25, <strong>and</strong> as it is said in Ezek. xvi. 6, <strong>and</strong> again in<br />

Ps. ct. 8, <strong>and</strong> Gren. xxi. 4;' <strong>the</strong> passages being, <strong>of</strong><br />

course, quoted in full. <strong>The</strong> prayer closed with <strong>the</strong><br />

hope that <strong>the</strong> child might grow up, <strong>and</strong> successfully<br />

' attain to <strong>the</strong> Torah, <strong>the</strong> marriage-baldachino, <strong>and</strong><br />

good works.''<br />

Of all this Zacharias was, though a deeply<br />

interested, yet a deaf <strong>and</strong> dumb ' witness. This only<br />

had he noticed, that, in <strong>the</strong> benediction in which <strong>the</strong><br />

child's name was inserted, <strong>the</strong> mo<strong>the</strong>r had<br />

interrupted <strong>the</strong> prayer. Without explaining her<br />

reason, she insisted that his name should not be<br />

that <strong>of</strong> his aged fa<strong>the</strong>r, as in <strong>the</strong> peculiar<br />

circumstances might have been expected, but John<br />

(/ocA^moTi). A reference to <strong>the</strong> fa<strong>the</strong>r only<br />

deepened <strong>the</strong> general astonishment, when he also<br />

gave <strong>the</strong> same name. But this was not <strong>the</strong> sole<br />

cause for marvel. For, forthwith <strong>the</strong> tongue <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>

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