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

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instrument <strong>of</strong> Roman tyranny. <strong>The</strong> exactions, <strong>and</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> reckless disregard <strong>of</strong> all Jewish feelings <strong>and</strong><br />

interests, might have been characterised as<br />

reaching <strong>the</strong> extreme limit, if worse had not<br />

followed when Pontius Pilate succeeded to <strong>the</strong><br />

procuratorship. Venality, violence, robbery,<br />

persecutions, wanton malicious insults, judicial<br />

murders without even <strong>the</strong> formality <strong>of</strong> a legal<br />

process, <strong>and</strong> cruelty—^such are <strong>the</strong> loK**^ ^ *■<br />

charges brought against his administration.* If<br />

former governors •^Ant. had, to some extent,<br />

respected <strong>the</strong> religious scruples <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jews, f St.<br />

Lake Pilate set <strong>the</strong>m purposely at defiance; <strong>and</strong> this<br />

not only once, but • AnlxTiiL *^^^ ^^^ *^P^7 i^<br />

Jerusalem,* in Galilee,' <strong>and</strong> even in Samaria,'<br />

*•!.*. until <strong>the</strong> Emperor himself interposed.''<br />

^nu^ug. Such, <strong>the</strong>n, was <strong>the</strong> political condition <strong>of</strong><br />

tJie l<strong>and</strong>, when John<br />

THE HIQH-PRIESTS AND TSEIR FAMILIES.<br />

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