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4 to cast him headlong over a precipise and twice they turned him out of the town. They were so wilful and depraved that Christ himself says he could not do many mighty works among them, and finally was compelled to desert them entirely and take up his abode at Capernaum. With such a refutation - and one of long standing - it was not strange that even a Galilean should be prejudiced against it. And when Philip came to Nathanael bearing the glad tidings that the Messiah had come of whom Moses and the prophets had written, it at once cropped out in the expression - "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" It was a vital matter with Nathanael - It touched a point of profoundest interest - it [crossed out: was] involved the acceptance or rejection of the true Messiah. ¶ And if we will but observe correctly we shall find that prejudice has been seriously mixed up with the cup of our Salvation.