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

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account <strong>of</strong> His questioning <strong>the</strong> Rabbis in <strong>the</strong><br />

Temple, <strong>the</strong> year before He attuned Jewish<br />

majority—that ' He was subject to His Parents,'<br />

<strong>and</strong> that ' He increased in wisdom <strong>and</strong> stature, <strong>and</strong><br />

in favour with God <strong>and</strong> man.' Considering what<br />

loving care watched over Jewish child-life,<br />

tenderly marking by not fewer than eight<br />

designations <strong>the</strong> various stages <strong>of</strong> its<br />

development,* <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> deep interest naturally<br />

attaching to <strong>the</strong> early life <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Messiah</strong>, that<br />

silence, in contrast to <strong>the</strong> almost blasphemous<br />

absurdities <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Apocryphal Gospels, teaches us<br />

once more, <strong>and</strong> most impressively, that <strong>the</strong><br />

Gospels ftimiBh a history <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Saviour, not a<br />

biography <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>of</strong> Nazareth.<br />

St. Mat<strong>the</strong>w, indeed, summarises <strong>the</strong> whole<br />

outward history <strong>of</strong><br />

OHAF.<br />

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