Ujm, it was an essay; I don’t have enough free time to redo it. But as one example, i admitted that i was unaware of that line in the abarbanel, but it didn’t say what our very-eager-to-defend-second coming ideology friend said it did. All he said is that Moshiach might come from those who are revived during techias hameisim, which he holds can happen first, before bias hamoshiach. He makes no mention of a second coming, and he definitely would if he held of it, because half of the sefer is a rebuttal to christian ideology, of which second coming ideas are a center piece. And that’s how he understands Sanhedrin, as “from the meisim” means those who will rise during techias hameisim, not that Moshiach alone will come from the dead.
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