For the record guys and gals, "I" didn't post this. Don't know who the
s***
bag is that did but it wasn't me.
Steve R. :-/
"Steve R" <srhodes13@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> wonderful thing is to have made the Jews great lovers of the things
> foretold, and great enemies of their fulfilment.
>
> 746. The Jews were accustomed to great and striking miracles, and so,
> having
> had the great miracles of the Red Sea and of the land of Canaan as an
> epitome of the great deeds of their Messiah, they therefore looked for
> more
> striking miracles, of which those of Moses were only the patterns.
>
> 747. The carnal Jews and the heathen have their calamities, and
Christians
> also. There is no Redeemer for the heathen, for they do not so much as
> hope
> for one. There is no Redeemer for the Jews; they hope for Him in vain.
> There
> is a Redeemer only for Christians. (See Perpetuity.)
>
> 748. In the time of the Messiah the people divided themselves. The
> spiritual
> embraced the Messiah, and the coarser-minded remained to serve as
> witnesses
> of Him.
>
> 749. "If this was clearly foretold to the Jews, how did they not believe
> it,
> or why were they not destroyed for resisting a fact so clear?"
>
> I reply: in the first place, it was foretold both that they would not
> believe a thing
>
>
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