"'Akiva, one of the leaders, was skinned alive - and Bar Kochba was carried off to Rome in chains to die in the lions' den. Or was it Bar Giora who died in the lions' den in another revolution? I can get these revolutions mixed up. Oh yet, the Bible and our history are filled with wonderful tales and convenient miracles. But this is real today. We have no Joshua to make the sun stand still or the walls to come tumbling down. The British tanks will not get stuck in the mud like Canaanite chariots, and the sea has not closed in on the British Navy as it did on Pharaoh's army. The age of miracles is gone, David.' "'It is not gone! Our very existence is a miracle. We outlived the Romans and the.....
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