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

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probably, not so much to opposition on principle,'<br />

as to this, that <strong>the</strong> census was regarded as <strong>the</strong><br />

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h<strong>and</strong>, is 8t. Lake's accnrate knowledge <strong>of</strong> Jewish<br />

customs, <strong>and</strong> all <strong>the</strong> more anti<strong>the</strong>tic to <strong>the</strong> mythical<br />

<strong>the</strong>ory <strong>the</strong> circumstance, that he places this reluarkabl^<br />

event in <strong>the</strong> twelfth year <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong>' life,<br />

<strong>and</strong> not when He became ' a Son <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Law.'<br />

* We take as <strong>the</strong> more correct reading that which<br />

puts <strong>the</strong> participle in <strong>the</strong> present tense<br />

{iafafiaiv6yrmv\ <strong>and</strong> not in <strong>the</strong> aorist.<br />

• <strong>The</strong> Romans were tolerant <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> religion <strong>of</strong> all

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