This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...the Jewish ecclesiastical rule to exist in deference to Jewish public opinion. If that public opinion ebbed, the priesthood and its dead symbolism would have no support, no reason for continuing to exist, and the destruction of the priesthood, they assumed, was equivalent to the destruction of the nation. 49 Caiaphas, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...the Jewish ecclesiastical rule to exist in deference to Jewish public opinion. If that public opinion ebbed, the priesthood and its dead symbolism would have no support, no reason for continuing to exist, and the destruction of the priesthood, they assumed, was equivalent to the destruction of the nation. 49 Caiaphas, being the High Priest that same gear The words do not mean that Caiaphas, in particular and above all men, was priest that year, for he was priest for eleven consecutive years, but that he was priest in that critical year. The acts and declarations of the High Priest had a peculiar significancy in that year. Ye know nothing He implies that they were practically ignorant. They knew the perplexities, and dangers, and requirements of the case, but they saw no plan for extricating themselves. They saw the premises but dared not avow the conclusion. They could not take a bold statesmanlike view. 50-5! The obvious meaning of the words of Caiaphas was, that by putting Jesus to death the Jewish nation would be saved from the ruin that must befall it if He were allowed to work His miracles and preach His doctrines. The facts and circumstances of the time are infallible interpreters. The actual alternatives were not whether Jesus or the nation should perish, but whether Jesus should be put to death, or the rulers should teach and practise the Jaw of Moses in its purity. If the rulers refused to reform, and Christ still continued to teach 51 And this spake he not from himself alone, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation; 52 And not for the nation only, but also in order that he might gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad. the doctrines which they refused to teach, the tru...
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