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

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History, would not only be pre-Bunxptuous,* but<br />

involve us in anachronisms. Fain would we know<br />

it, whe<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> Child <strong>Jesus</strong> frequented <strong>the</strong><br />

Synagogue School; who was His teacher, <strong>and</strong> who<br />

those who sat beside Him on <strong>the</strong> ground, earnestly<br />

gazing on <strong>the</strong> face <strong>of</strong> Him Who repeated <strong>the</strong><br />

sacrificial ordinances in <strong>the</strong> Book <strong>of</strong> Leviticus,<br />

that were all to be fulfilled in EQm. Sat it is all' a<br />

mystery <strong>of</strong> Gk>dliness.' We do not even know<br />

quite certainly whe<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> school-system had, at<br />

that time, extended to far-cff Nazareth; nor whe<strong>the</strong>r<br />

<strong>the</strong> order <strong>and</strong> method which have been described<br />

were universally observed at that time. Jn all<br />

probability, liowever, <strong>the</strong>re was such a school in<br />

Nazareth, <strong>and</strong>, if so, <strong>the</strong> Child-Saviour would<br />

conform to <strong>the</strong> general practice <strong>of</strong> attendance. We<br />

may thus, still with deepest reverence, think <strong>of</strong><br />

Him as learning His earliest earthly lesson from<br />

<strong>the</strong> Book <strong>of</strong> Leviticus. Learned Rabbis <strong>the</strong>re were<br />

not in Nazareth—ei<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong>n or afterwards.' He<br />

would attend <strong>the</strong> services <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Synagogue, where<br />

Moses <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> prophets

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