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The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship.

Julius Wellhausen

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Julius Wellhausen
Age: 73 †
Born: 1844
Born: May 17
Died: 1918
Died: January 7
Arabist
Biblical Scholar
Hebraist
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