A little more on the Jews .  .  .

      
  “What is the Jew?...What kind of unique creature is this whom all the rulers
of all the nations of the world have disgraced and crushed and expelled and
destroyed; persecuted, burned and drowned, and who, despite their anger
and their fury, continues to live and to flourish. What is this Jew whom they
have never succeeded in enticing with all the enticements in the world,
whose oppressors and persecutors only suggested that he deny
(and disown) his religion and cast aside the faithfulness of his ancestors?!
 The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had
guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind.
A people such as this can never disappear.
The Jew is eternal. He is the embodiment of eternity.”

                                          By  Leo Tolstoy - - - What is the Jew? 

                                                                                           
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“I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation.
If I was an atheist and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had
ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations ...
They are the most glorious nation that ever inhabited this Earth. The Romans and their
empire were but a bubble in comparison to the Jews. They have given religion to
three-quarters of the globe and have influenced the affairs of mankind more
and more happily than any other nation, ancient or modern.”

                       By John Adams - - - Second President of the United States

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“The Jews, however, are beyond all doubt the strongest, toughest, and purest race at
present living in Europe; they know how to succeed even under the worst conditions
(in fact better than under favorable ones) by means of virtues of some sort, which one
would like nowadays to label as vices-owing above all to a resolute faith which does
not need to be ashamed before “modern idea…
It is certain that the Jew, if he desired-or if they were driven to it, as the antisemites seem
to wish-could now have the ascendancy, nay, literally the supremacy, over Europe;
that they are not working or planning for that end is equally sure… The resourcefulness
of the modern Jews, both in mind and soul, is extraordinary…”

                            By Friedrich Nietzsche - - -  German Philosopher (1844 - 1900)



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                                                        And Our Lord said a long, long, ago .  . .

                  For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God.
                                                                                                         - - 2 Samuel 7:24

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 Yours in Christ,
  Paul N. F.