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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: became unnecessary. These teachings of Jesus have a marked
Essenian character, as well as his declaration that in the
Messianic kingdom there was to be no more marriage, perhaps no
distinction of sex (Matt. xxii. 30). The sect of Ebionites, who
represented the earliest doctrine and practice of Christianity
before it had been modified by Paul, differed from the Essenes in
no essential respect save in the acknowledgment of Jesus as the
Messiah, and the expectation of his speedy return to the earth.
How long, or with what success, Jesus continued to preach the
coming of the Messiah in Galilee, it is impossible to conjecture.
His fellow-townsmen of Nazareth appear to have ridiculed him in
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