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* In diesem heiligen Bade taufen wir unsre Kinder darum, weil es unbillig waere, dass wir diejenigen, die von uns, einem Volke
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In diesem heiligen Bade taufen wir unsre Kinder darum, weil es unbillig waere, dass wir diejenigen, die von uns, einem Volke Gottes, geboren sind, der Gemeinschaft des Volkes Gottes sollten berauben, die doch durch das goettliche Wort dazu bestimmt und diejenigen sind, von denen man vermuthen soll, sie seien von Gott erwaehlt.
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Now if I could feel that way about those Jews—servants of a syndrome no less unnatural or anarchic—who by silence or connivance have gone for the throats of fellow Jews, meaning to strangle them themselves, or permit them to be strangled by others, the apostates, the name-changers, the crawlers to the cross, the Taufjuden who sound like DevilJews, but that would be Teufel, whereas taufen means merely “to baptize”—as though between taufen and the Teufel in this context there might be said to be a difference…
Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006
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