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

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generally conjoined <strong>the</strong> so-called *woes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

<strong>Messiah</strong>' with Uis first appearance. It seems not to<br />

have occurred to <strong>the</strong>m, that, if such had been <strong>the</strong><br />

Jewish expectation, a preliminary objection would<br />

have lain against <strong>the</strong> claims <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong> from <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

absence.<br />

* <strong>The</strong>ir feelings on this matter would be<br />

represented, mutatis mvt<strong>and</strong>iSy by <strong>the</strong> Qdpressions<br />

in <strong>the</strong> Sanhedrin, recorded ia Si. John xL 47-5a<br />

' Both Meyer <strong>and</strong> Weiss have shown, that this was<br />

not a meeting <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Sanhedrin, if, indeed, that<br />

body had anything more than a shadowy existenoe<br />

during <strong>the</strong> reign <strong>of</strong> Herod.<br />

* <strong>The</strong> question propounded by Herod (v. 4), *<br />

where Christ should be bom,' is put nei<strong>the</strong>r in <strong>the</strong><br />

past nor in <strong>the</strong> future, but in <strong>the</strong> present tense. In<br />

o<strong>the</strong>r words, he laid before <strong>the</strong>m a case —a<br />

<strong>the</strong>ological problem—^but not a faett ei<strong>the</strong>r past or<br />

future.

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