Born from the chosen house of the chosen people, yet blending in his inexplicable nature the Divine essence with the human elements, a sacrificial Mediator was to appear, appointed before all time, to purify with his atoning blood the myriads that had preceded and the myriads that will follow him.
In his biography of Lord George Bentinck, Disraeli describes the unique nature and redemptive role of the sacrificial Mediator.
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