PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Pulpit Commentary — John — Volume 1
Henry Robert Reynolds [1825-1896] · 515,280 words · 526 reading sections
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He could not die a second time; how could he disappear from among men more eppro- 11riately thnn in the manner he himself hod foretold? II. AN EVIDENT PROOF OF THE DIVINITY OF BIS PERSON AND llt[SSION. And this in two ways. 1. Jesus had expressly and repeatedly foretold that ho should aseond into heaven; the fact o…
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Vera. 66-69.-De8ertion and adhesion. It is instructive to observe that, in the course of Christ's ministry, there were those among his professed friends who forsook him. And it is also instructive to observe that such cases of desertion led Christ's real and attached friends to ask themselves what it was that held the…
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boiled in their thoughts, flashed in their countenance&, e.nd blazed in their words. They :we": e~tirely ~wayed by it, and ready at any moment to break_ out in an apparenUy 1rreinst1ble action. 2. The proposal was popular. The vast multitude were united and even the disciples were not exempt. They were naturally dra…
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bree.th of worldly notions, hurne.n ambition, e.nd petty pride. (3) His character had, a decided rflllisling force against evil even in its most insidious and apparently innocent forms. How insidious e.nd apparently innocent was evil in this proposal of the multi- tude I Was it not kindness and gratitude? Yes, but it w…
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"Seek, and ye shall find," is as applicable to him as to all the spiritual blessings of his kingcl0m. 4. In their seeking there is much that is commendable and worthy oj imiuition. (1) There is much enthusiasm. (2) Intelligent obsen:ation. 'l'hcy observed his m0vements and those of his disciples. (3) Diligent sea,·c…
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Ilo holds the looking-glass of truth before the man, eo that he may see his moral image. And it is 11, great help to improve a man to let him see himself. (2) Tho revelation is made with solemn emphasis. "Verily, verily," etc. Indicating the absolute truth of the charge, and its po.ramount importance with regard to …
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the sn.ml' authority over mn.n as the potter over the cln.y, He cn.n do as he likes, and perhaps this is the only 11.newer he would give to some questioners, "I can do as I like." But we know that he cannot like to do anything that is wrong, unreasonable,or unfair. He cn.nnot aot from mere caprice, but his actions a…
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partinga often on earth, and painful social separation■ by dist~nce and death; but of all sad separations, the saddest is the separation of the soul from Christ-of an old disciple from his Master. 2. A sad loss to them, not to Jo.sus. (1) They lost whaC they had gained. We can scaroely think that they could have bee…
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he could ill e.fTord to e.ek this question after the greBt departure from him. He had e.ppnreutly now only twelve, and to these he asks," Will ye also," etc.? He is not dependent upon his disciples. If thBlle were silent, the very stones would speak; if the children of the kingdom reject him, "many shall come from the …
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this position without any thought beforehand. The only sufficiently wise person among them W6l! a bit of a lad who hnd five loaves and two small fishes with him. Yet these men must not be hMtily reckoned fools as the world CllUnts fools. It ie ensy to be wi~e after the event. It was the easiest thing in the world fo…
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things ho O!tn. It Is " pitiful confession to make; but most men are compelled into forethought through sheer necessity. III. Tnl!l IlESPEOT WHIOH OUGHT TO BE PAID TO BREAD. Lane, in bis • Mo<lem Egyp- tiAns,' says of them that they show " great respect for bread as the staff of life, and on no account suffer the emnl…
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Ver. 27.-Nevel' turned away. It is the disposition of some men so to act as if they should have it written up on their doors, "Him that cometh to me I always send empty away." Others go to the opposite extreme. They have the giving disposition, but they give without judgrnent. Here we are directed to a Giver, a Help…
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Ver. 61.-Apostasy from JeB'US. What candour there is in the Gospel narratives I Many went away from Jesus, and no concealment is made of the great apostasy. We are not to suppose that the whole company departed simultaneously, as if the heart of one man was in their breasts. Probably they went one or two at a time. So…
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EXPOSITION. CHAPTER vn. seoking to kill him, Now the feaat of the J'ews, the Feut of Tabern&olea, w&a at h&nd. Ch. vii.-x. oonto.in the record of the The lo.at olnuso supplies a vnluo.ble chrono- conflict between fe.ith e.nd unbelief in the logical dntum. This great climo.oterio fee.et metropolis. At first the nar…
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hostility whloh kept him eo long from Jeru- possible epe.ce, on we.lie e.nd housetops in salem wns ciroulating in angry vibrations to courtyards, and even in we.ggons and on the the very borders of Go.lilee. The hour for the be.eke of camels. The people carried their fine.I oonlliot wae in abeyance until he hnd palm…
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mCLke thyself known: claim the place thBt what you blindly <leeire. The kind of belongs to thee." It must be remembered manifestation he subsequently me.do on tbe.t thnt the dieoiples (JudtL•, not Iec11riot, eepe- occasion was one of love to the needy, not olally) enid on the very night of the one of power to dazzle…
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in with itB dc>m1tnde, to realizo ita ooi-rupt motive sufficiently strong prosonted iteelf. and unspiritual dreams. You are violating With the nssistanoe of oa,,...,, or with fUllh none of it-s chl'rish0d fancies; you are abas- l\n emphnsis upon the present tense (&11a- ing none of it.s idols; your time i8 alAoays /3a(…
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lem leads many to look for the full ohrono- x. 22 ; x. 40) ; and that the fine.I departure logionl detail of thia Inst tra.nsnction. It from Galilee was with a gror,t convoy. oontu.ine, however, many inci<lcnts between Ewald o.nd Moy~r regard thi8 as a violent oh. Ix. 51 an,I xviii. 31, where the final attempt M har…
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appointed by hie non-appee.re.nca. Some fee.et laet.ed seven or eight do.ye, thie le rea- ui<l one thing, Rnd some Another. One group eonl\bly supposed t.o be on the fourth day. we.e lou<l in hie prni~ee, and another sne- We mRy presume that he had been spending picioue either of hie orthodoxy or his patriot- a few …
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original a.nd uniquo of the grea.t sRgeR. The saitb the Lorcl." But Jesus says hi, tho11ghts "Jews'' were sufficiently e.cquRinted with a.re God's thoughts, hie ways God's w&ya, lhe origin o.nd training of Jesus to be hi• teachings not his own, but altogether a.etonishocl o.t his knowledge of the inter- those of him wh…
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or universnl Rppli<'ations. The eolemn utt{)r• oase. The broth ren of Jesus hRd taunted RDl'e hns a wide out.look, nnd iB ronst,mtly him with the lack of bold eelf-nssort.ion. osh1blishing ib! own verity. A profound Our Lord's own position just tnken WI\B nnd volunlnry desire to do the will of God tlu,t his t.cachin…
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you the Law t-the whole revm,led L1w of authorities was too well known to our Lord, Ood ooncorning moral conduct and daily and, not deigning to notice the interruption rilua11 a viulntion of the renl epi.rit of which and the insult, he continuecl- would be 6.611</a, and of which yon a.ccuse Ver. 21.-J e1aa answered and…
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t"'k np lnf(l the LRw which h1> gave yon the spirit of thCI Law-the olorost appro11ch that still ol<lor IRw of the AhrahRmic oovenRnt., a Jew could mnh'e to the will of God-is re- nnd lttid down the stringent rule that the produced in Paul's Epistles (Col. Ii. 11 ; Eph. rite mmt be performed on the eighth dRy ii. 11…
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Lomple (ver. 28). We soo, however, B new M11I. iii. I, that he wonfrl mnke l\ sndrlen wovo of feeling, Tho muUitndo, or part of descent on the temple-a dazzling app,sr- H, tbot gothere<l round him wiis miiddened e.nce at his Messianic euthronizrition, coming with his intimntion of the murderous ani- in the clou,!s or …
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WM bone of their- bone. and eympathmng the lire 11nd lip!! of a M11n whom they knew, in t.heir drop!'flt IIOIT(lWB, understood their his laet and greatest meBBago. noble~! upirstions. Suoh a conoeseion, Ver. 29.-(Bnt) 1 I know him; beoauae I mnroovor, ropurli11tae the suppoeod dooolio am from him-my inmost nature, t…
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to some extent of hie Moesinnio olnime. no proof of it. The Pharisees an,J pri~sts 1-lH was moro than a mere Prophet to them, were ofton e.t enmity, but there were sevoml or LeBder, 11,11 ie obvions from the tone of the occasions daring our Lord's ministry when speech whloh follows: And they said (were they combined …
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whioh follows, ne well ns the quotation of Another word, "Grecian " or " llollonist," these worde in ob. xiii. 33, prove that this is used for the Jew, who bad adopted Greek wne not his moaning. (2) Augustine and ideas, hnbits, and speech. Who.tevcr may otllC'rs imagine penit-ential seek"ing when it be the strict me…
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In oh. 1:I. 49-51, they so.id o.nd prophesied phus co.Us it " the very sacred close ( uvµ.,rl- more thnn thoy knew. Arohdeo.con Wo.tkins pa.uµa) of the yee.r." The LXX. gives the so.ye, "Tho irony of history is seon in the onrious translation l(o31ov for azereth, equi- fa.et thnt the very words of these J ewe of vo.len…
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that ceremonial provided the opportunity for great sufficiency of this p1nticulnr illustra• the great utt<•mnce which follows. Chrysos- tion of the rock in tho wihlernoss I\S justify- tom snys. on the eighth day," when they were ing the reference to the phro.so, "o.s the returning home, he giveth them supplies." Scr…
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le1111 was not yet glorified. This verse he.e ea.ored consecration e.nd personal union with o greot woight, as the evongelist's interpre- the Logos. The union of the Divine and totion of the previous words of tl,e Lord, human nature of Christ is maintained by that nor con they be put oside. The history of ea.me Spirit …
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gmnd fel\trnoe of the Old Testl\me11t oon- of lllioe.h v. 2, but those of Is&, :II. I and coption of the Coming One. 'Whether even J er. :s-s:iii. 5, passBges which anticipe.to the the wisrst of thorn had lel\rned to oombine Messiith's descent from David, 'l'hese woro all these features of Prophet, Priest, 1md minor…
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of tho oonncil, they return empty-ho.ndecl, expecting a negative answer, might ho an- cmd to some extent bafHed and chagrined. swered differently. There were Pharisees 'l'hey had !fallen into the domino.nt enthu- who had shown some sympathy with Jesus. siasm of the crowd for o. moment. They he.d Certain steps, moreover…
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parenthc~is aho"-s the author's strong recol- the.tout of Galilee ariseth I no prophet. 'fhe lection !lf the scene (eh. iii. 1, etc.), whon the present tense has very uco.rly tho force of the Lord !JR,l opened to his own mind, 81! well perfeot, nnd denotes the genoml rule of tho as to NiMdemus, the mystery of the 1..-i…
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faithful testimon~· against its evil. He had roused its antagonism by his rebukes of Pharisaic hypocrisy and wickedness. •• This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world; and men have loved darkness rather th1m light, because their deeds nre eviL" The works were evil, {a) because they were done, not ac…
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II. Oun LoBn's EXPLANATION 011' IIIB TEAOHmG. "My teaching is not mine, but his tbe.t sent me." 1. Hie docerlne was not self-originated, though be had stuclied in no school of the rabbis. 2. lt was not hwman; for it was from the Source of all truth, God himself. 8, He claima to be merely the Messenger of his Father. He…
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Yel'B. 25-29.-TM true origin of otur L<Ytd. The opportli.'nHy again l\l'isee ofllssert~ ing his Di,-ine origin, I. THE PERPLEXITY OF THE J£RlJSALEM JEWS 'RESPEOTING THE. l'OLl0Y AND VIEW& oir THEIR RULERS. "Then said some of the inhabifants' of Jerusalem, Is not this ho whom they ~cek to kill? And, lo, he speaketh …
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divisions of religious life among ~he Jews themselves weTe in abeyance under the influence of the con,mon ch1nger, The Pharisees acted in harmony with the chief priests, who were Sncld ucees. IV. Timm AOTION BU0GEBTS TO OUR LORD THE IDEA OF ms COMD1G DEATH. "Jesus therefore said unto them, Yet a little while I.am with…
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Vers. 45-52.-The mreti'flg of the Sanhedrin. The position of the officia.l guides of the people was becoming every hour more gravely compromised by the movement in favour of Jesus. I. THE EXTRAORDINARY REPORT OF THE OFFICERS TO THE SANHEDBm. " Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees ; and they sai…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Ver. 5.-Brethren, but not believers. In recording this fact the evangelist shows his usual candour. The fact that some of those who were nearest akin to Jesus withheld from him their faith is at first sight surprising. It must have been very distressing to the human heart of our Lord to me…
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Ver. 7.-0hrid's witness agai,u;t sin. The "world," which is here affirmed by Jesus to have hated him, is not to be distinguished from the "Church," if that expression may be applied to those who professed to receive the revelation and to do the will of God. For amongst our Lord's enemies, the foremost were certainly…
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purifying the spiritual vision. When the good is habitually chosen, the true comes to be habitually sought and prized. 2. The will thus in harmony with God's will recognizes the Divine origin of Christ's teaching. Both by reason of his acquaintance with the mind of God, and by his sympathy with the Law and the truth of…
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foretold by Moses in the Pentateuch, and by the last of the prophets who contributed to the Old Testament co.non, that a great Prophet should in after-days be raised up by the Eternal. And this wo.s fulfilled in the Prophet of Nazareth. II. OIIRIBT's PROPHETIC QUALIFICATIONS, His Divine nature, his intimacy with his …
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t-0 be the Christ. This step could not but be adverse to e. general recognition of his rightful C',)aims. n'. THAT JESUS WAS TB'£ CHRIST WAS, HOWEVER, OORDIALLY BELIEVED BY HIS -PT~CJPLES. Collecting together the somewhat scattered evidence of this fact, the st.t1dent of the Gospels OBUnot but be impressed by its ab…
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V, OHRIS'l''S WORDS ABE INCOMPARABLE FOB THEIR ENDURING, T'ERMANENT LTFE AND INFLUENCE. 'l'he words of many wise, thonghtful, e.nd good men have perished. There Rre words which are full of meaning and preciousness for one creneration but which fo.il to affect the generations which ·ronow. But Christ's word~ are trea,;u…
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During his earthly career he WIIB the Subject of time, and dependent upon it. He who was before and really above time was now its Subjcot. As such: (1) Ho had regard to its events; what were taking plaoe in the social and religious world around him, their bearings upon each other, and especia.lly upon his movements …
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comes; but if H comes not nt the time and in the way expected i& wait~ anrl trusts nnd obeys. Jesus was the Messiah nnd the Saviour of faith. He revealed himself to faith, nnd faith is the only power on earth which could see, comprehend, and appre- ciate his rcnl character and his Divine mission; consequently all his m…
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CoNOLUl'IONR. 1. The u·onde1ftil power of language as the instrument of thought and sentimenf.s. The s11me words may convey different feelings. Murder and love may travel in the same vehicle. "Where is he?" 2. People in all ages make inquiries ronceniing JesHs <Jhrist from different motives and with different intention…
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of mnn. 6. In all these divisions it is all-importwnt to possess an earnest .~pi-rit and a well-disposed heart, for through these alone can we see ,Jesus as he is. 6. Jn these divisions we may give Jesus a good name and nothing more. \Ve may call him tbo Christ, but "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord," etc. He dem…
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t,-,,th~-t.ruth~ <'<•Prr:·ning mnn and God, concerning this world and the other. Never m:111 spnke as he t-0 reason, to conscience, to the will nnd hMrt. (2) Never man spnlrn \\'ith swh a_uthor,'.ty, _811;8e, naturalness,. transp_nrency, and convic~ion. (3) Never rnnn ~pnkc with mrh Dw,ne effect. To vanous obJecb!-to…
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II. How Wl!J ABE TO PROFIT BY TFIE FULL COMING OF THE TIME OJI' ,JEsua. we can only profit by the coming of this time as we m11ke it to profit. The time of Jesus hn!i to come fully with each of ue. Not a human being who has ever trod this planet but hne to come somewhere nnd somehow in contact with Jesus. We can no mor…
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Yer. 37.-Good news for the thfrsty. Jesus uttered forth this cry on the great day of the feast-a. time of ce9Sing from work, a time of solemn assembly. Quietly e.s Je8U8 hail gone· np to the feast, by this time he had become the Centre of o. vast concourse. Because the concourse would be vast and not over-quiet, e.n…
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Moreover, the text of D bore difliirs from that group i~, with the exception of T, represen- of the later unciels in which it occurs, o.e well tative of the Syrian Recension. Some of the as from the body or cursives which contain best manuscripts of the Vulgato contain it, it. Liicke powerfully 11rgnes,from ihe sile…
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8, The testimony of ancient writers cnn is implied, however, that he was seated be set over ngninet the eilenoe of Tertullie.n, during the discourse of eh. xiii., xiv. The Origen, Oyprian, eto. Thus,• Apost. Const.,' use of such words e.s Ka'Ta')'p&<J,e<v, a.vaµdp-r11- ii. 24, refers to the nnrrntive, in vindic11tion -…
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Joh. 8chriftt,n.' 271) ne I\ gloss on eh. viii. Pnpias, w:th reference to the extrnordinary 15); thnt th<' <'X,.<'l'nnl evidence is extremely fertility of the vine in the lntter de.ye- tmsntisfnrt0ry nnn conflicting; yet it must a passage wltich Lightfoot thinks mo.y hnve he ndmitted thnt the silence of the groat br…
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however, be no impropriety in the reference wit_hout specifying the topic or them~ nn to tho cessation of o.n extrnorclino.ry session which he dwelt. ThA calm moniing wn.s or oommittco of tho So.nhedrin, when the soon ovcrclo11ded, nnd the people violently officers 1111.cl returned without their prize. excited, by a v…
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be answered, lower his prestige. According ironical, crafty. The entire oudience !mow to vor. 10 (omitted in Codex B), these soribos the.t this law ho.d never been accepted or and PhRrisoes were, if not the "witnesses" applied literally: tho.t the Scmhedrin hnd of Rdultery, the "Rconsers" rea.dy to take not enforced…
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gcslod hy B11umgnrlcn-Ornsiue nncl LnthBrdt, enbmitterl to him. This is n1A: probable, and 11doptcd by Moulton, that Christ was ancl it would detract from the symbolism of nskocl to en.y "Aye" or "No" to 11n instant, the act. tumultnoue act of vongennco upon the Vere. 7, 8.-But when they continued ask- ndulteress. Let …
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(being oonvioted by their' own 0011BOienoe), even to execute his fierce displensure ngain81 they went out one by one. Their oonsoience a sin whioh ho hnd, in his great inaugural convin,•c,l them thnt the spirit of the La.w discourse, charged upon the ill-regnlnted is ~,..,a.kr the.n its letror. The phmae ex- desiros…
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of 1tpocryph11l litcml.uro. If tlw text is so Tho lifo of mon prrrluc, rl by him who is vnrlorl, conflicting, ancl ill-s11atninod as to Life lighte11s Lhe world with its glory. He envelop it in doubt; if the plo.M in the ie the Light of the world, beco.neo he is tho gospol no.rmtive bo uncerlo.in; if the nee of Source …
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boon kindlC'd. It "11·as now reserved under who and wl1at I 11m, nnd surrounded by the throne of God for the MessiAh, iu whose Divine allcs ~-ilion~, charged wil!t t1 con- days it would Ehine once morA." (The sciousness of a whole m·my and legion of J ,ogos wns, in the language of Philo, tho approving witnesses, and…
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