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

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serious divergence in <strong>the</strong> latter part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> verse, it<br />

may be best here simply to give for comparison <strong>the</strong><br />

rendering <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> passage in <strong>the</strong> Targum Jonathan: *<br />

Out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>e shaU come forth before Me <strong>Messiah</strong> to<br />

exercise rule over Israel.*<br />

' Not .necessarily by nigkt^ as most writers<br />

suppose.<br />

' So correctly, <strong>and</strong> not' in <strong>the</strong> East,' as in A.V.<br />

' Pro<strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong> this is abundantly furnished by Wetstein,<br />

Nov. Tes^ t. i. pp. 247 <strong>and</strong> 248,<br />

1<br />

208 FROM BETHLEHEM TO JORDAN.<br />

BOOK not <strong>the</strong> faintest description <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> scene. It<br />

is as if <strong>the</strong> sacred writer n had fully entered into<br />

<strong>the</strong> spirit <strong>of</strong> St. Paul, * Tea, though we have ""■ ' '<br />

known Christ after <strong>the</strong> flesh, yet now henceforth

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