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Because at Rome, the proud mistress of the world, they thundered out the terrors of the law upon that idolatrous, war-making, and slaveholding community.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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Grimké discusses the apostles' fearless proclamation of the law in the face of a corrupt society.
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