The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

PREFACE TO THE SEOOND AND THIRD EDITIONS. '0' IN issuing a new edition of this book I wish, in the first place, again to record, as the expression of permanent convictions and feelings, some remarks with which I had prefaced the Second Edition, although happily they are not at present so urgently called for. With the feelings of sincere thankfulness for the kindness with which this book was received by all branches of the Church, only one element of pain mingled. Although I am well convinced that a careful or impartial reader could not arrive at any such conclusion, yet it was suggested that a perverse ingenuity might abuse certain statements and quotations for what in modern parlance are termed 'Anti-Semitic' purposes. That· any such thoughts could possibly attach to a book concerning Him, "Vho was Himself a Jew; "Vho in the love of His compassion wept tears of bitter anguish over the Jerusalem that was about to crucify Him, and Whose first utter& once and pray

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