Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 730

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730. I now perceive that they are such, if not the same, as those Jews who thus wander in the desert; and if they meet anyone, they not only have the intention to despoil him of whatever he has, but further, if no one knew it, to kill, slaughter, burn and boil him. That this is their intention although they dare not do so, can be sufficiently concluded from their cupidities, "animus", and genius, even against their own people and their companions, and also from their nefarious life when power has been given them over their enemies whom they could not but treat cruelly, and desired to treat them still more cruelly.


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