When they first heard of Christianity, it appeared to be a Gentile religion, accompanied by idolatrous practices, from which severe monotheists, like the Arabians, always recoil, and holding the Jewish race up to public scorn and hatred.
In his biography of Lord George Bentinck, Disraeli explains the historical reasons for the Jewish rejection of early Christianity.
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