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To any spiritually expectant soul, the Bab's declaration would have indicated that the Kingdom of God had indeed come. No earlier Manifestation, not even Jesus.. had issued a challenge to the rulers.. proclaiming the Self-Sufficiency of His Cause and denouncing the vanity of their ephemeral power and calling upon them to lay aside, one and all, their dominion, and deliver His Message.. But to such men as the Persian authorities, such claims merely proved the Author was an undoubted mountebank and probably not in his right mind and that His Cause would quickly collapse of its own weight.
(65:2)
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