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mattered the life of one single man to him, the arbiter
of the lives of millions of men! Who could bring
him to account for the putting to death that
night of an innocent man by one of his
procurators in the name of the Emperor of Rome?
And his procurator whose execrated name is still
on our lips, was he more responsible than his
Imperial Master for signing the death-warrant of
an innocent man? To him, the stern upholder
of Roman law and tradition in an unruly
province, was it even an innocent man he was putting
to death? And the cursed Jew who still wanders
round the world in search of forgiveness, did he
know what he was doing? Or he, the greatest
evildoer of all time, when he betrayed his Master
with his kiss of love? Could he have done
otherwise? Did he do it of his own free will? It had
to be done, he had to do it obeying a will stronger
than his. Was there not in that night on
Golgotha more than one man who was made to
suffer for a sin which was not his?
I bent over the sleeping child for a while and
went away on tiptoe.
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