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Benjamin Disraeli: “The immolators were preordained like the victim, and the holy race supplied both.”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1852
The immolators were preordained like the victim, and the holy race supplied both.
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Benjamin Disraeli

Editor's note · Context

In his biography of Lord George Bentinck, Disraeli asserts that both the crucifiers and the crucified were divinely preordained from the Jewish people.

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