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 1 Text|  Scribes—in like manner, when John recognised our Lord. . . . ~*     *     *     *     *     *     *~[
 2 Text|  Malachi testifies concerning John, 'Behold I send my messenger
 3 Text|     our Lord confirms it that John was Elijah, give me evidence
 4 Text|     the other Scriptures that John is [the messenger] of whom
 5 Text|     of strangeness ?~"Because John was near to die, he sent
 6 Text|    therefore, bore witness to John that he was meek, let us
 7 Text|      for) our Lord who says, 'John is greater than all who
 8 Text|      give us the splendour of John which was eminently great
 9 Text|  prophets who said concerning John "He is greater than all
10 Text|    about him 3 that magnifies John ? But can it be that the
11 Text|      us look at the aspect of John and see which Messiah he
12 Text|  against one another, and set John between (them) ; with whom
13 Text|      it was because [P. 110.] John announced the coming of
14 Text|       qualities). But because John was the messenger of the
15 Text|            he is greater than John. For that majesty which
16 Text| majesty which was ascribed to John bears witness concerning
17 Text|       that He is greater than John. And is that messenger who
18 Text|     humbled and persecuted as John was? If thus is his coming (?),
19 Text|     is so — as indeed it is — John, the humbled and lowly,
20 Text|   what foretaste of salvation John offered to them ; and, in
21 Text|     Tribes, who disbelieve in John and continue to do so, then
22 Text|     why was it necessary that John should come to baptize and
23 Text|        for lo, the baptism of John ceased to exist) among the
24 Text|     who can baptize, now that John is dead ? And if it (i.e.
25 Text|      found in connection with John, are the things by means
26 Text|      found in connection with John. For lo, the prophet testifies
27 Text|     fulfilled in him (i.e. in John).' But I say that the herald
28 Text|     Because those words which John proclaimed [give an earnest
29 Text|       For from the actions of John I demonstrate (that he has)
30 Text|      which the actions (?) of John bear witness that it was
31 Text|    hidden in the preaching of John, (the retribution) which
32 Text|       Baptism at the hands of John was so alien that not [P.
33 Text|       with the Strangeness of John by the conduct of our Lord,
34 Text|       conduct of our Lord, as John also was with the Law :
35 Text|   meet) in the new Baptism of John. ~But nevertheless if our