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

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lurid back-ground to <strong>the</strong> m * <strong>the</strong> Innocents.' As we<br />

have reckoned it, <strong>the</strong> visit <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> M place in<br />

February 750 A.u.C. On <strong>the</strong> 12th <strong>of</strong> March <strong>the</strong> Ral<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir adherents suffered. On <strong>the</strong> following night (or<br />

rath morning) <strong>the</strong>re was a lunar eclipse; <strong>the</strong><br />

execution <strong>of</strong> Antipc ceded tiie death <strong>of</strong> his fa<strong>the</strong>r<br />

by five days, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> latter < from seven to<br />

fourteen days before <strong>the</strong> Passover, which in 7<br />

place on <strong>the</strong> 12th <strong>of</strong> April.^<br />

* See <strong>the</strong> calculation in Wieselfr^t Sjn-opse, pp.<br />

66 <strong>and</strong> 444. <strong>The</strong> * Dissertatio de Herode<br />

Magno/by J. A, pan der Ckys (Lejden, 1856), is<br />

very clear <strong>and</strong> accurate. Dr. G^eikie adopts <strong>the</strong><br />

manifest mistake <strong>of</strong> Oaspari, that Herod died in<br />

January, 763, <strong>and</strong> holds that <strong>the</strong> Holy Family •pent<br />

three yeaiB in Egypt. <strong>The</strong> repeated<br />

statement <strong>of</strong> Josephos that H close upon <strong>the</strong><br />

Passover she sufficed to show <strong>the</strong> impossibili<br />

hypo<strong>the</strong>sis. Indeed, <strong>the</strong>re is any historical date on<br />

which c writers are more agreed thai Herod's<br />

death. See SokSntf Zeitg., pp. 222, 223.

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