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

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party. As afterwards expressed in its purest <strong>and</strong><br />

simplest form, <strong>the</strong>ir watchword was, negoMoelyy<br />

to call no human b^ng ilieir absolute lord ;^<br />

postUvehfy ^AjoLxrm, that God alone was to lead<br />

as absolute Lord.^ It was, in fact, a i^vival t a...<br />

<strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Maccabean movement, perhaps more<br />

fully in its national than in JSTio^i' its religious<br />

aspect, although <strong>the</strong> two could scarcely be<br />

separated in Israel, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir motto almost reads<br />

like that which, according to some, famished <strong>the</strong><br />

letters whence <strong>the</strong> name Maccdbee * was<br />

composed: *3DD * ilfi (7amochah Baelim<br />

/ehovah, ^ Who like <strong>The</strong>e among <strong>the</strong> gods, Jehovah<br />

?' * It is characteristic <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> times <strong>and</strong> religious<br />

tendendea, • bx. zt. u that <strong>the</strong>ir followers were no<br />

more called, as before, Assideans or Cho/^ gidimy<br />

* <strong>the</strong> pious,' but Zealois (ft/Xeorat), or by <strong>the</strong><br />

Hebrew equivalent Qjommaim (GcuncmceanSy<br />

not * CanacmiteSy' as in A.V.). <strong>The</strong> real home <strong>of</strong><br />

that party was not Judaea nor Jerusalem, but<br />

Galilee.<br />

Quite o<strong>the</strong>r, <strong>and</strong> indeed antagonistic, tendencies

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