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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: inevitable corollary from his own conception of Messiahship. We
have seen that he had, probably from the very outset, discarded
the traditional notion of a political Messiah, and recognized the
truth that the happiness of a people lies not so much in
political autonomy as in the love of God and the sincere practice
of righteousness. The people were to be freed from the bondage of
sin, of meaningless formalism, of consecrated hypocrisy,--a
bondage more degrading than the payment of tribute to the
emperor. The true business of the Messiah, then, was to deliver
his people from the former bondage; it might be left to Jehovah,
in his own good time, to deliver them from the latter. Holding
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