Crossword-Solution: MESSIANIC 9 letters, 35 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The Messianic idea was not peculiar to the Jewish race-- the idea of a Person gathering up within himself, in an effective fulness and harmony, the restorative elements of humanity, which have lost their power through dispersion and consequent obscuration.

This notion was the origin of the divine genealogies of royal families, the incarnations of gods, and the messianic fables.

The Essenes attached but little importance to the Messianic expectations of the Pharisees, and mingled scarcely at all in national politics.

But God illumined his understanding, and he learned to rub two stones against each other and produce light for his needs.[104] The celestial light was but one of the seven precious gifts enjoyed by Adam before the fall and to be granted to man again only in the Messianic time.

The accident made Jacob apprehensive that his sons were not pious enough to be considered worthy of the revelation concerning the Messianic era, and he said to them, "Ishmael and the sons of Keturah were the blemished among the issue of my grandfather Abraham; my father Isaac begot a blemished issue in Esau, and I fear now that among you, too, there is one that harbors the intention to serve idols." The twelve men spake, and said: "Hear, O Israel, our father, the Eternal our God is the One Only God.