“The Jews were behind all the persecutions of the Christians. They wandered through the country everywhere hating and undermining the Christian faith.”

—  Justin Martyr

Source: See Antichrist and the Tribe of Dan https://books.google.com.br/books?id=mF8OAQAAIAAJ by Gerald Burton Winrod, Defender Publishers, 1933.

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