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

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<strong>the</strong> same words as <strong>the</strong> Evangelist. <strong>The</strong> expression<br />

is also used in this sense in <strong>the</strong> Apocr. <strong>and</strong> by<br />

pro&ne writers. Oomp. Wetitein <strong>and</strong> Meyer ad<br />

locnm. Jewish tradition also expresses <strong>the</strong><br />

expectancy that <strong>the</strong> nations o^ <strong>the</strong> world woold<br />

<strong>of</strong>fer gifts onto <strong>the</strong> <strong>Messiah</strong>. (Comp. Pes. ll8&;Ber.<br />

R. 78.)<br />

■ So not only in <strong>and</strong>ent hymns (by Shdulitu^<br />

JuveneuM^ <strong>and</strong> Claudian% bat by <strong>the</strong> Fa<strong>the</strong>rs <strong>and</strong><br />

later writers. (Oomp. Si^, Leben Jesn, ii 1, pp.<br />

102,103.)<br />

* So Archdeacon Farrar rightly oom-pntes it<br />

' An Ulostrative instance <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> mth-less<br />

destmction <strong>of</strong> whole families on suspicion that his<br />

crown was in danger, occurs in Ant. xy. 8. 4. But<br />

<strong>the</strong> suggestion that Bagoas had suffered at <strong>the</strong><br />

h<strong>and</strong>s <strong>of</strong> Herod for Messianic predictions is<br />

entirely an invention <strong>of</strong> JMnt. {^SeksH' kel, Bibel<br />

Lex., vol. iiL p. 37. Oomp. Ant xviL 2. 4.)

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