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The Life of Jesus

CHAPTER IV
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Socrates was the glory of the Athenians, who would not suffer him to live amongst them.

Spinoza was the greatest Jew of modern times, and the synagogue expelled him with ignominy.

Jesus was the glory of the people of Israel, who crucified him.
[Footnote 1: _Yacna_, xiii.

24: Theopompus, in Plut., _De Iside et Osiride_, sec.

47; _Minokhired_, a passage published in the _Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenlaendischen Gesellschaft_, i., p.
263.] [Footnote 2: Virg., Ecl.


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