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Montefiore's impression of Jesus was wrong. Jesus loved the Pharisees, although He denounced them publicly. And I love the Communists, as well as their tools in the Church, although I denounce them.
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Richard Wurmbrand, Tortured For Christ, p. 83 (1967).

 

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