“Nations exist,” he said, “and then are spoken of. But the Israel that was to rise from death was spoken of, prophesied of, and dreamed about for thousands of years before it existed. Such things have no precedent. Nor has any such thing ever been foretold thousands of years before it happened. But from ancient times it was prophesied, ‘I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.’”
