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

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<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> garner is derived from <strong>the</strong> Eastern practice<br />

<strong>of</strong> threshing out <strong>the</strong> com in <strong>the</strong> open by means <strong>of</strong><br />

oxen, after which,what <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> straw had been<br />

trampled under foot (not merely <strong>the</strong> chaff, as in <strong>the</strong><br />

A.y.) was burned. This use <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> straw for fire is<br />

referred to in <strong>the</strong> Mishnah, as in Shabb. iii. 1; Par.<br />

iv. 3. But in that case <strong>the</strong> Hebrew equivalent for it<br />

is ^jj<br />

( Qa$k) —as in <strong>the</strong> above passages, <strong>and</strong> not<br />

VOL. h<br />

Tehken (Afeyer), nor even as Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Delituch<br />

renders it in his Hebrew N.T.: Mat». <strong>The</strong> three<br />

terms are, however, combined in a curiously<br />

illustrative parable (Rer. B. 83), referring to <strong>the</strong><br />

destruction <strong>of</strong> Rome <strong>and</strong> th& preservation <strong>of</strong> loael,<br />

when <strong>the</strong> grain refers <strong>the</strong> straw, stubble, <strong>and</strong> chaff,<br />

in <strong>the</strong>ir dispute for whose sake <strong>the</strong> field existed, to<br />

<strong>the</strong> time when <strong>the</strong> owner would ga<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> oom into<br />

his bam, but bum <strong>the</strong> straw, stubble, <strong>and</strong> chaff.

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