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Ils s'étaient fait passer pour meilleurs que les autres hommes et avaient entretenu une haute opinion de leur piété au sein du peuple ; maintenant les secrets de leurs vies coupables étaient dévoilés.
They had exalted themselves as better than other men, and had led the people to entertain a high opinion of their piety; now the guilty secrets of their lives were unveiled.
Pendant des générations, les Juifs avaient entretenu à l’égard du monde extérieur une attitude qui leur rendait impossible d’accepter les enseignements du Maitre sur la fraternité spirituelle des hommes.
For generations the Jews had nourished an attitude toward the outside world which made it impossible for them to accept the Master's teachings about the spiritual brotherhood of man.
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