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

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most significant <strong>of</strong> all (<strong>the</strong> fifteenth Eulogy), *<br />

Speedily make to shoot forth <strong>the</strong> Branch • <strong>of</strong><br />

David, Thy servant, <strong>and</strong><br />

Zacharias was what <strong>the</strong> Rabbis understood ^7 Bnn<br />

—one deaf as well as dumb. Adcordingly <strong>the</strong>y<br />

communicated with him by Dnon, * signs '—as<br />

Delitueh ooirecUy renders it: V^^^ np7?l.<br />

* Although almost all modem authorities are<br />

against me, I cannot persuade myself that <strong>the</strong><br />

expression (St. Luke i 78) rendered "dayspring * in<br />

our A. V. is here not <strong>the</strong> equivident <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Hebrew<br />

noY<br />

is contrary to Jotephiu (War iv. 3,9), <strong>and</strong> to <strong>the</strong><br />

circumstance that both <strong>the</strong> fia<strong>the</strong>r <strong>and</strong> bro<strong>the</strong>r <strong>of</strong><br />

Josephus bore <strong>the</strong> name <strong>of</strong> Matthias. See also Zuns<br />

(Z. Gesch. u. Liter, p. 318).<br />

' <strong>The</strong> reader wiU find B. H. AwrlnioKt Berith<br />

Abraham (with a Hebrew introduction) an<br />

interesting tractate on <strong>the</strong> subject. For ano<strong>the</strong>r <strong>and</strong>

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