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

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Nay, <strong>the</strong>re was a time when all Israel were not<br />

only free from death, but like <strong>the</strong> Angels, <strong>and</strong> even<br />

higher than <strong>the</strong>y. For, '»i^rdiiig originally God had<br />

<strong>of</strong>fered <strong>the</strong> Law to all Grentile nations,^ but <strong>the</strong>y<br />

raiii;*; had refused to submit to it.* But when<br />

Israel took on <strong>the</strong>mselves <strong>the</strong> Law at Mount Sinai,<br />

<strong>the</strong> description in Psalm Ixxxii. 6 apjilled literally<br />

to <strong>the</strong>m. <strong>The</strong>y would not have died, <strong>and</strong> were ' <strong>the</strong><br />

sons <strong>of</strong> k Uk z, 5 c God.' ^ But all this was lost by<br />

<strong>the</strong> sin <strong>of</strong> making <strong>the</strong> golden calf— although <strong>the</strong><br />

Talmud mfirks that, if Israel had continued in that<br />

Angelic state, <strong>the</strong> nation would have ceased with<br />

that generation.* Thus <strong>the</strong>re were two divergent<br />

opinions—<strong>the</strong> one ascribing death to personal, <strong>the</strong><br />

o<strong>the</strong>r tracing it to Adam's guilt.'<br />

Ab.Zar.<br />

' <strong>The</strong>j are: <strong>the</strong> shining splendour <strong>of</strong> his person,<br />

even his heels being like suns; his gigantic size,<br />

from east to west, from earth to heaven; <strong>the</strong><br />

spontaneous splendid products <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ground, <strong>and</strong><br />

<strong>of</strong> all fruit-trees; an infinitely greater measure <strong>of</strong>

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