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

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feeling <strong>and</strong> hope in her must have prompted such a<br />

course, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>re is no need to discuss whe<strong>the</strong>r<br />

Roman or Jewish Census-usage required her<br />

presence—a question which, if put, would have to<br />

be answered in <strong>the</strong> negative.<br />

<strong>The</strong> short winter's day was probably closing in,' as<br />

<strong>the</strong> two travellers fix)m Nazareth, bringing with<br />

<strong>the</strong>m <strong>the</strong> few necessaries <strong>of</strong> a poor Eastern<br />

household, neared <strong>the</strong>ir journey*s end. K we think<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong> as <strong>the</strong> <strong>Messiah</strong> bom heaven, <strong>the</strong><br />

surroundings <strong>of</strong> outward poverty, so far from<br />

detracting, seem most congruous to His Divine<br />

character. Earthly splendour would here seem like<br />

tawdry tinsel, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> utmost simplicity like that<br />

clothing <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> lilies, which far surpassed all <strong>the</strong><br />

glory <strong>of</strong> Solomon's court. But only in <strong>the</strong> East<br />

would <strong>the</strong> most absolute simplicity be possible,<br />

<strong>and</strong> yet nei<strong>the</strong>r it, nor <strong>the</strong> poverty from which it<br />

sprang, necessarily imply even <strong>the</strong> slightest taint <strong>of</strong><br />

social inferiority. <strong>The</strong> way had been long <strong>and</strong><br />

Acts xi. 28, where what was predicted is said to

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