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

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final consequences <strong>of</strong> resistance to <strong>the</strong> coming ZI<br />

gdom' ? If so, <strong>the</strong>irs must be a repentance not only<br />

in pro- ' •n, but <strong>of</strong> heart <strong>and</strong> mind, such as would<br />

yield fruit, both good risible. Or else did <strong>the</strong>y<br />

imagine that, according to <strong>the</strong> common n <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

time, <strong>the</strong> vials <strong>of</strong> wrath were to be poured out only<br />

ie Gentiles,' while <strong>the</strong>y, as Abraham's children,<br />

were sure <strong>of</strong> 16—^in <strong>the</strong> words <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Talmud, that<br />

^ <strong>the</strong> night' (Is. xzi. was ^ only to <strong>the</strong> nations <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

world, but <strong>the</strong> morning to<br />

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'or, no principle was more fully established in <strong>the</strong><br />

popular convic-than that all Israel had part in <strong>the</strong><br />

world to come (Sanh. z. 1), this, specifically,<br />

because <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir connection with Abraham,<br />

appears not only from <strong>the</strong> New Testament,^ from<br />

Philo, <strong>and</strong> ^u^ m, )hus, but from many Rabbinic

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