And that greater church, great even amid its terrible corruptions, that has avenged the victory of Titus by subjugating the capital of the Caesars, and has changed every one of the Olympian temples into altars of the God of Sinai and of Calvary, was founded by another Jew, a Jew of Galilee.
In his biography of Lord George Bentinck, Disraeli asserts that the great Christian Church, which transformed Rome, was founded by a Jew from Galilee.
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