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

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om in ' <strong>the</strong> royal castle <strong>of</strong> Bethlehem;' while in<br />

<strong>the</strong> parallel narrative in <strong>the</strong> Midr. on Lament, i. 16,<br />

ed. W. p. 64 h) <strong>the</strong> somewhat mysterious<br />

expression is used M3^ M'VSS-But we must keep<br />

in view <strong>the</strong> Bab-tinio statement that, even if a<br />

castle<br />

falls down, it is still called a castle (Yal-kat, vol.<br />

ii. p. 60 h),<br />

* In fact <strong>the</strong> Mishnah (Baba K. vii. 7) expressly<br />

forbids <strong>the</strong> keeping <strong>of</strong> flocks thronghont <strong>the</strong> l<strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />

Inael, ezoa>t in <strong>the</strong> wildernesses—<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> only<br />

flocks o<strong>the</strong>rwise kept, would be those for <strong>the</strong><br />

Temple-servioes (Baba K. 80 a><br />

CHBISTMAS-NIGHT IN THE PLAINS OF<br />

BETHLEHEH<br />

187<br />

not ordinaiy shepherds. <strong>The</strong> latter were under <strong>the</strong><br />

ban <strong>of</strong> Rabbinism,^ on account <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir necessary

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