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If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred.
Baruch Spinoza Theological-Political Treatise
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If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred.

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