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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Not sympathy, but terror, seals the lip and clouds the eye of the bystander.
Yet truth, after all, is the sovereign passion of mankind; nor is the writer of these pages prepared to relinquish his conviction that it is possible to combine the accuracy of the present with the impartiality of the future.
Nature had clothed this vehement spirit with a material form which was in perfect harmony with its noble and commanding character.
He was always singularly anxious to acquire the truth, and would spare no pains for that purpose; but when once his mind was made up, it was impossible to influence him.
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