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mised that they should be fishers of men . The meaning of the promise they will tell us when they return . " « What thinkest thou of him , Lemuel ? ' " That he is a mighty one sent of God . " " Why then art thou here ? Why didst thou not follow him also ?'' " I feared to do so ; but when our companions return , we shall learn more of the glad tidings he is said to bring . " " Let us follow . " said Sadoc to his friend Ci lest these men return not
, again . " One who was a Nazarene offered to join them , as he also sought the Prophet . He had heard him in the synagogue at Nazareth two sabbath-days before . He now related how this Prophet had read and applied to himself the saying , i 6 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me , because he hath appointed
me to preach glad tidings to the poor ; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted , to preach deliverance to the captives , and recovering of sight to the blind ; to preach the acceptable year of the Lord / ' The Nazarene told how this promise appeared to be fulfilled by the works of wonder and of love now daily witnessed in those parts which saw this great and long-promised light . He described the contempt with which the Mighty One was regarded in Nazareth , because he had dwelt there in a humble station while following
an ordinary occupation . " They remember not , " he continued , " that David was once but a stripling who tended his father ' s sheep , and that Solomon was descended from Ruth the Moabitess . " " Hast thou known , —didst thou ever discourse with Jesus before he was
baptized ? " asked Sadoc with eagerness . " 1 have broken bread and drank of the same cup with him , " replied the Nazarene , " and heard many words of wisdom from him . I have often marvelled that my heart burned within me while we discoursed of the hope of our nation . And when I have beheld how the eyes of his mother were fixed on him with deep and tender love , I have thought that she was blessed
among women . " And his brethren are also favoured of the Lord ?" " Nay , but they believe not on him . Mary , his mother , hideth her hopes in her heart ; but his brethren marvel that the world is gone after him . Yet they were in much fear lest he should be dashed to pieces when his townsmen were full of wrath against him . "
" Wherefore were they angry ?" " Because he restrained his hand from doing the mighty works which they sought . He rebuked them for their unbelief , and refused to put forth his power , lest they should scoff at the Most High . Then they thrust him forth to the ridge of the hill , and I verily thought that his last hour was
come . " And was his countenance calm ?" " He did not strive nor cry , but looked mournfully on the rebellious crodiv . Presently he was gone , no one knew whither . I came to Capernaum , trusting to find him there , and I will not henceforth cease from following him . "
• ' Paltiel , " said Sadoc , turning to his friend , " in this thing hath Jehovah again testified that his ways are not as our ways . This man cometh not with power and an outstretched arm , as we supposed . He is mild and calm ; and I cannot look upon him as the champion of Israel , and the conqueror of our conquerors . When I have hitherto thought of the day of our
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104 The Hope of the Hebrew .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1830, page 104, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2581/page/32/
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