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lyte, f may have led him to ima this deputation
of lea ; Jewish
citizens would have ter
weight with Jesus than he hii would have had.
In any ease his t suffer in their hands, tor
they, "when they came to Jesus, besought Him
earnestly, saying, He is worthy that Thou shoe,
do this tor him :
built us our syr .
for he loveth our nation, and himsc
Luke vii. 4. 5 .
The tribute is very remarkable, and we would
y know what had
- Idief to fa st hims<
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. this
heathen
in the Jewish
religion. But on this point the Evangelia .re
wholly silent. And we can only 1
cture
that,
wearied with the vanities of the old heathen
religions, he had come to admire and reverence the
worship of the true uod, and had D the bk
synag .
s in his power of O it by building tfa
of
which b think that they c
.1 find trac .: the m D Tell Hum, ly
thought to rep: the ancient Capernaum.
But me: ing than the Centurion's
liberality was his humilitv. tor no sooner had he
heard that his request v ranted, and that Jesus
was on His way to the house, than h. cond
outation, this time of >ome of his friends, deprekg
the trouble which he had ah put
ut tl am actual
* Had the Ct a bee old
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r
the Jewish nation, or
d it is further n Vthj that tl press IS
applio New Tes nent are wanting in his
ure Acts 1 1, 23, 35; 1 .
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