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

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contrast. I have purposely abstained from<br />

reproducing any <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se narratives, partly because<br />

previous writers<br />

have done so, <strong>and</strong> partly because <strong>the</strong> only object<br />

served by repeating, what must so deeply shock <strong>the</strong><br />

Christian mind, would be to point <strong>the</strong> contrast<br />

between <strong>the</strong> canonioil <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Apocryphal<br />

Gospels. But this can, I think, be as well done by a<br />

single sentence, as by pages <strong>of</strong> quotations.<br />

THE HOME OF THE MAGI.<br />

203<br />

chief difficalty. Even <strong>the</strong>ir designation is not free<br />

from ambignity. CHAP. <strong>The</strong> term Magi is nsed in<br />

<strong>the</strong> LXX., by Philo, Josephns, <strong>and</strong> by VUI pr<strong>of</strong>ane<br />

writers, alike in an evil <strong>and</strong>, so to speak, in a good<br />

sense '— '~ ' in <strong>the</strong> former case as implying <strong>the</strong><br />

practice <strong>of</strong> magical arts; * in <strong>the</strong> ^^'^'^ latter, as<br />

referring to those Eastern (specially Chaldee)<br />

priest-sages, xtu-tiS whose researches, in great

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