"It may be asked what possible object a redactor could have had in combining the narrative of a rebellion against civil authority with another having for its moral to warn against usurpation of the priesthood. The story presents nothing improbable. We need not search deeply into history to find similar examples of parties with different, or even conflicting interests, uniting for a common end."
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Florentine Stanislaus Bechtel
Florentine Stanislaus Bechtel (4 February 1857 – 22 November 1933) was a French Jesuit biblical scholar.
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