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

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two. (3) Ber. R. 8 must read, *<strong>The</strong> Spirit <strong>of</strong> God<br />

moved on <strong>the</strong> deep—that Is, <strong>the</strong> Spirit <strong>of</strong> <strong>Messiah</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> King,' because <strong>the</strong> pro<strong>of</strong>-passage is<br />

immediately added, • god <strong>the</strong> spirit <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Lord<br />

shaU rest<br />

upon Him,' which is a Messianic passage; <strong>and</strong><br />

because, only two lines before <strong>the</strong> impugned<br />

passage, we are told, that Gen. i. 26,1st clause,<br />

refers to <strong>the</strong> * spirit <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> first man.' <strong>The</strong> latter<br />

remark applies also to Vayyikra R. 14, where <strong>the</strong><br />

context equiJly forbids <strong>the</strong> proposed correction.<br />

' It would be very interesting to compare with this<br />

<strong>the</strong> statements <strong>of</strong> Philo as to <strong>the</strong> agency <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Logoi in Creation. <strong>The</strong> subject is very well treated<br />

by Riehm (Lehrbegr. d. Hebr. Br. pp. 414-420),<br />

although I cannot agree witii all his conclusions.<br />

* <strong>The</strong> whole <strong>of</strong> this passage, beginning at p. 147 (,<br />

is very curious <strong>and</strong> deeply interesting. It would<br />

lead too far to quote it, or o<strong>the</strong>r paraUel passages<br />

which might be adduced. <strong>The</strong> passage in <strong>the</strong>

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