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The claim that the Jews are a "Chosen People" has always irritated the / Gentiles. "From olden times," wrote Philostratus in the third century, / "the Jews have been opposed not only to Rome but to the rest of / humanity. " Even Julian the Apostate, who designed to rebuild their / Temple, raged at the doctrine of their election. Sinai, said the / Rabbis with a characteristic pun, has evoked _Sinah_ (hatred).
In our own day, the distinguished ethical teacher, Dr. Stanton Coit, / complains, like Houston Chamberlain, that our Bible has checked and / blighted all other national inspiration: in his book "The Soul of / America," he even calls upon me to repudiate unequivocally "the claim / to spiritual supremacy over all the peoples of the world."