> must i add that, in the whole new testament, there appears but a solitary figure worthy of honour? pilate, the roman viceroy. to regard a jewish imbroglio seriously -- that was quite beyond him. one jew more or less -- what did it matter? . . . the noble scorn of a roman, before whom the word "truth" was shamelessly mishandled, enriched the new testament with the only saying that has any value -- and that is at once its criticism and its destruction: "what is truth?
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