The ark of the covenant and the seven-pronged candlestick have passed from human view; the inhabitants of Judea have been dispersed to the ends of the earth, but the New Testament has survived and increased in its influence among men.
Calvin Coolidge: “The ark of the covenant and the seven-pronged candlestick have passed from human view; the inhabitants of Judea have…”
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Coolidge notes the survival and growing influence of the New Testament despite the dispersion of its early followers.
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