The Israel (of Italy) is the revolutionary party, the national party, who say to Italians, You are not a race born to be slaves of the Pope, or of the Austrian whip; you are twenty-six millions of people, created free, equal, brethren, all children of God, and servants of nothing but his law.
This passage defines the "Israel of Italy" as the revolutionary national party, asserting the inherent freedom and equality of the Italian people against foreign and ecclesiastical oppression.
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But the Pope, who wishes all men to be slaves—who demands, of the powerful of the earth, fetters and chains for Italians—the Pope-king does not know Christ: he lies to his religion.
Let no one misunderstand my words—let no one confound Popery with Christianity—the Religion of Liberty with the avaricious and sanguinary Politics of Slavery.
To arms all!—all!—and the oppressors, the supremely powerful, shall be turned into dust.
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