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

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outstreaming glory <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Lord seemed to enwrap<br />

<strong>the</strong>m, as in a mantle <strong>of</strong> light.^<br />

CHAP. VI<br />

> This disposes <strong>of</strong> an inapt quotation (from<br />

DelitEsch) by Dr. Oeikie. No one could imagine,<br />

that <strong>the</strong> Tahnndic passages in question could apply<br />

to such shepherds as <strong>the</strong>se.<br />

' <strong>The</strong> mean <strong>of</strong> 22 seasons in Jerusalem amounted to<br />

4*718 inches in December, 5*479 in January, <strong>and</strong><br />

6*207 in February (see a very interesting paper by<br />

Dr. CkaffUn in Quart 8tat. <strong>of</strong> PaL Ezplor. Fund,<br />

January, 1883). For 1876-77 we have <strong>the</strong>se<br />

startling figures: mean for December, *490; for<br />

January, 1*696; for February, 8'750--<strong>and</strong>,<br />

similarly, in o<strong>the</strong>r years. And so we read: * Qood<br />

<strong>the</strong> year in which Tebhetk (December) is without<br />

rain' (Tftan. 6 b). Those who have copied<br />

Lightfoot*s quotations about <strong>the</strong> flocks not Ijing out<br />

during <strong>the</strong> winter months ought, at least, to have<br />

known that <strong>the</strong> reference in <strong>the</strong> Talmudic passages

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