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

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dereliction <strong>of</strong> God's ordinances;" <strong>the</strong> neglect <strong>of</strong><br />

instruction, <strong>of</strong> study, ■ aiti 88« <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> proper<br />

practice <strong>of</strong> His Law; <strong>and</strong>, in later days, <strong>the</strong> love <strong>of</strong><br />

money <strong>and</strong> party strife.*^ But <strong>the</strong> seventy years*<br />

captivity had ceasedy ■ Jer. why not <strong>the</strong> present<br />

dispersion? Because hypocrisy had been added<br />

TomASA, to all o<strong>the</strong>r sins;^ because <strong>the</strong>re had not<br />

been proper repentance;' o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

88,86; ir. 80; Mid<br />

▼U.48^<br />

Debar. B. 9, ed. Wareh., p. 20 a). This view is<br />

also supported by such passages in <strong>the</strong> Apocrypha<br />

as Wisdom ii. 23, 24; iii. 1, kc ; while, on <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

h<strong>and</strong>, Bcclus. zv. 11-17 seems ra<strong>the</strong>r to point in a<br />

different direction.<br />

' <strong>The</strong>re can be no question that, despite its strong<br />

polemical tendency against Christianity, <strong>the</strong> Fourth<br />

Book <strong>of</strong> Esdras (n. Esdras in our Apocrypha),<br />

written at <strong>the</strong> close <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> first century <strong>of</strong> our era,

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