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CHAPTER TWO
The Life of Saint Issa THE BEST OF THE SONS OF MEN
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The earth trembled and the heavens wept because of the great crime just committed in the land of Israel.
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For they have just finished torturing and executing there the great, just Issa in whom dwelt the soul of the universe,
Who incarnated himself in a simple mortal in order to do good to men and to exterminate evil thoughts?
4 And in order to bring back man degraded by sins to a life of peace, love and good, and to recall him to the only and indivisible Creator, whose mercy is infinite and boundless.
This is what the merchants, who came from Israel, relate on the subject.
