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against Jesus, saying: "It is more profitable that one man
should die rather than the whole nation should be
destroyed," (2) was a prophet (3)! If he were a prophet, how
was it that he did not recognize the prophetic mission or
the Messianic character of "the Messiah"?
Footnotes:
(1). Enoch xlvi. 4 - 8. (2). John xi. 50. (3). Idem, 51.
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Here are, then the principal reasons why Jesus was
not "the Son of Man" nor the Apocalyptic Messiah:
(a) A messenger of God is not commissioned to pro-
phesy about himself as a personage of some future epoch,
or to foretell his own reincarnation and thus present him-
should die rather than the whole nation should be
destroyed," (2) was a prophet (3)! If he were a prophet, how
was it that he did not recognize the prophetic mission or
the Messianic character of "the Messiah"?
Footnotes:
(1). Enoch xlvi. 4 - 8. (2). John xi. 50. (3). Idem, 51.
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Here are, then the principal reasons why Jesus was
not "the Son of Man" nor the Apocalyptic Messiah:
(a) A messenger of God is not commissioned to pro-
phesy about himself as a personage of some future epoch,
or to foretell his own reincarnation and thus present him-