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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: preacher of righteousness. He announced himself--and justly, from
his own point of view--as the long-expected Messiah sent by
Jehovah to liberate the Jewish race. Thus the success of his
religious teachings became at once implicated with the question
of his personal nature and character. After the sudden and
violent termination of his career, it immediately became
all-important with his followers to prove that he was really the
Messiah, and to insist upon the certainty of his speedy return to
the earth. Thus the first generation of disciples dogmatized
about him, instead of narrating his life,--a task which to them
would have seemed of little profit. For them the all-absorbing
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