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

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' Keim (Jesn von Nazara, i. 2, p. 377") drops <strong>the</strong><br />

appeal to legends <strong>of</strong> pr<strong>of</strong>ane writers, ascribes only<br />

a secondary in£u-ence to Numb. xxiv. 17, <strong>and</strong> lays<br />

<strong>the</strong> main stress <strong>of</strong> * <strong>the</strong> legend' on Is. Iz.— with<br />

what success <strong>the</strong> reader may judge.<br />

' Can it be imagined that any person would invent<br />

such a * legend' on <strong>the</strong> strength <strong>of</strong> Is. Ix. 6 7 On <strong>the</strong><br />

o<strong>the</strong>r h<strong>and</strong>, if <strong>the</strong> event really took place, it Ib easy<br />

to underst<strong>and</strong> how Christian symbolism would- -<br />

though uncritically— have seen an adumbration <strong>of</strong><br />

it in Uiat piopbecy.<br />

VOL. I.<br />

* <strong>The</strong> ' multitude ot camdlii <strong>and</strong> dh>me-daries,' <strong>the</strong><br />

* flocks <strong>of</strong> Kedar <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> rams <strong>of</strong> Kebaioth * (v.<br />

7), <strong>and</strong> ' <strong>the</strong> isles,* <strong>and</strong> ' <strong>the</strong> ships <strong>of</strong> Tarshish * (v.<br />

9).<br />

* <strong>The</strong> subject <strong>of</strong> Jewish astrolo^ i^ well treated by<br />

Di. Hamhurger, bo£ in <strong>the</strong> first <strong>and</strong> second<br />

volumes <strong>of</strong> his Real-Encykl. <strong>The</strong> ablest summary,

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