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

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is deeply tinged with Ohiistian doctrine.<br />

Of course, <strong>the</strong> first two <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> last two chapters in<br />

our Apocryphal II. Esdras are later spurious<br />

additions <strong>of</strong> Christian authorship. But in pro<strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> influence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Chnstian teaching on <strong>the</strong> writer<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Fourth Book <strong>of</strong> Esdras we may call<br />

attention, besides <strong>the</strong> adoption <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> doctrine <strong>of</strong><br />

original sin, to <strong>the</strong> remarkable application to Israel<br />

<strong>of</strong> such N.T. ezpressiona as *<strong>the</strong> firstborn,* <strong>the</strong><br />

'only-begotten,' <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> ' well-beloved' (lY. Esdras<br />

vi 68 —in ova Apocr. IL Esdras iv. 68><br />

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