And when the time was ripe to diffuse the truth among the ethnics, it was not a senator of Rome or a philosopher of Athens who was personally appointed by our Lord for that office, but a Jew of Tarsus, who founded the seven churches of Asia.
From his biography of Lord George Bentinck, Disraeli points out that the mission to spread Christian truth to the Gentiles was entrusted to a Jew, not a Roman or Greek.
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Notwithstanding these great changes, the condition of the Irish peasantry remained the same; the tenure of land was unchanged, the modes of its occupation were unaltered, its possession was equally necessary and equally perilous.
He encouraged them by making occasions for their exertions, and would relinquish his own opportunity without a moment’s hesitation, if he thought the abandonment might aid a better man.
The immolators were preordained like the victim, and the holy race supplied both.
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