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...precursors of a new age in which “those who were now suffering would become prosperous—by which he meant the heretics,—and that those who were now enjoying life were like serpents—by which he meant the good Catholic Christians,—. . . and that the first would soon triumph over the others.” [кто был ничем - тот станет всем - вс] ... The rationalist approach was never as popular as the apocalyptic-utopian approach. [no wonder - vs] - pg 104

“In the promised land cousins would marry cousins, and that in those lands ... many goods and riches were reserved for them.”

- Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of Crypto-Jews, pg 108

почему это cousins would marry cousins, интересно

... mocking disrespect of authority is a constant human response to feelings of powerlessness with regard to that authority [точное замечание]. - pg 159