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

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I would refer to Bishop LighifoaCt masterly Essay<br />

on <strong>the</strong> Bssenes in his Appendix to his<br />

Grommentaiy on Colossians (especially here, pp.<br />

388, 400). It is a remarkable confirmation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

fact that, if John had been an Essene, his food<br />

could not have be^n ' locusts' that <strong>the</strong> Gospel <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Ebionites, who, like <strong>the</strong> Essenes, abstained from<br />

animal food, omits <strong>the</strong> mention <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> * locusts,* <strong>of</strong><br />

St. Matt. iii. 4 (see Mr. NichoU<strong>of</strong>CM • <strong>The</strong> Gospel<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Hebrews,' pp. 34, 36). But pro<strong>of</strong> positive is<br />

derived nom Jer. Nedar. 40 ft, where, in case <strong>of</strong> a<br />

vow <strong>of</strong> abstinence from flesh, fish <strong>and</strong> locusts are<br />

interdicted.<br />

' Our A.V. wrongly translates ' a haiiy man,*<br />

instead <strong>of</strong> *a man with a haiiy<br />

THE 'KINGDOM OF HEAVEN' AND THE OLD<br />

TESTAMENT.<br />

266<br />

Thia waft dvidenoed alike by what lie preached,

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