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

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this or <strong>the</strong> next world. No Hindoo fanatic would<br />

more humbly betid before Brahmin saints, nor<br />

devout Romanist more venerate <strong>the</strong> members <strong>of</strong> a<br />

holy fraternity, than <strong>the</strong> Jew his great RabbisJ<br />

Reason, duty, <strong>and</strong> precept, alike bound him to<br />

reverence <strong>the</strong>m, as he reverenced <strong>the</strong> Gted Whose<br />

interpreters, tepresentatives, deputies, intimate<br />

companions, almost colleagues in <strong>the</strong> heairenly<br />

Sanhedrin, <strong>the</strong>y were. Atid all around, even nature<br />

itself, might seem to foster such tendencies. Even<br />

at that time JudsBa Was comparatively desolate,<br />

bali^ti, grey. <strong>The</strong> decaying cities <strong>of</strong> ancient<br />

renown; <strong>the</strong> lone highl<strong>and</strong> scenery; <strong>the</strong> bare,<br />

rugged hills; <strong>the</strong> rocky terraces from which only<br />

artificial culture could woo a return; <strong>the</strong> wide<br />

solitary plains, deep glens, limestone heights—<br />

with distant glorious Jerusalem ever in <strong>the</strong> &r<br />

background, would all favour solitary thought <strong>and</strong><br />

religious abstraction.<br />

It was quite o<strong>the</strong>rwise in Gtklilee. <strong>The</strong> smiling<br />

l<strong>and</strong>scape <strong>of</strong> Lower Galilee invited <strong>the</strong> easy<br />

labour <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> agriculturist. t!ven <strong>the</strong> highl<strong>and</strong>s <strong>of</strong>

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