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Mother

CHAPTER XVII
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Then, suddenly stepping back from Pavel, he said, as he shook his head: "Ah, me, if I were a Jew! The Jew, my dear boy, is the most believing man in the world! Isaiah, the prophet, or Job, the patient, believed more strongly than Christ's apostles.

They could say words to make a man's hair stand on end.

But the apostles, you see, Pavel, couldn't.
The prophets believed not in the church, but in themselves; they had their God in themselves.

The apostles--they built churches; and the church is law.

Man must believe in himself, not in law.


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