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

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derived from Josephus, <strong>and</strong> admittedly refer to <strong>the</strong><br />

Flaviui dynasty, <strong>and</strong> to a period seventy years or<br />

more after <strong>the</strong> Advent<br />

<strong>of</strong> Christ. *<strong>The</strong> splendid vaticination in <strong>the</strong> Fourth<br />

Eclogue <strong>of</strong> Virgil/ which Archdeacon Farrar<br />

regards as among <strong>the</strong> * unconscious prophecies <strong>of</strong><br />

hea<strong>the</strong>ndom/ is confessedly derived from <strong>the</strong><br />

Cumsaan Sibyl, <strong>and</strong> based on <strong>the</strong> isibylline<br />

Oracles, book iii. Unes784-794 (ed. Friedlieh p.<br />

86; see Einl. p. xxxix.). Almost <strong>the</strong> whole <strong>of</strong> book<br />

iii., inclusive <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se verses, is <strong>of</strong> Jewiih<br />

authorship, <strong>and</strong> dates probably from about 160 B.a<br />

Archdeacon Farrar holds that, betides <strong>the</strong> above<br />

referencet^ * <strong>the</strong>re is ample pro<strong>of</strong>, both in Jewish<br />

<strong>and</strong> Pagan writings, that a guilty <strong>and</strong> weary world<br />

was dimly expecting <strong>the</strong> advent <strong>of</strong> its Deliverer.'<br />

But he <strong>of</strong>fers no evidence <strong>of</strong> it, ei<strong>the</strong>r from Jewish<br />

or Pagan writings.<br />

» Comp. Mill, u. s., p. 308, note 66. <strong>The</strong> gnmrUU<br />

adduced by some are such references as to Is. viii.<br />

4; Ps. Ixxii. 1(X &c; <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> character <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> gifts.

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