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Jiang's description of Frank's project: gather followers into a separate people who conquer and rule the corrupt world for its own good.
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new nation
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Jacob who found the nation of Israel so he's starting a new nation why because the world that we live in is so corrupt..."
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Jiang says Jacob Frank does not see himself as an ordinary Jew but as the reincarnation of the patriarch Jacob, tasked with founding a new nation.
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Jiang says Frank's mission is to gather a new nation, conquer corrupt people, and lead them 'for their own good' rather than convert them through moral persuasion.
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"...Jacob who found the nation of Israel so he's starting a new nation why because the world that we live in is so corrupt..."
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"...so what we need to do is come together as a new nation and conquer these people and lead them for their own good..."
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"...choose to settle in the Polish Lutheran Commonwealth which is a new nation and because it's a new nation they need a lot of..."
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"...Philistines okay and this grouping of people will give us a new nation called Israel and at first they're they have to elect a..."
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"...they believe that Providence, God, has tasked them with founding a new nation based on Enlightenment principles. So the religion of these people is..."
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"...the entire western part of the United States goes to the new nation. This, in 1861, we have the Civil War. Alright? And I've..."
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"...seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men..."
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"...point, there are certain characteristics about this new religion, or this new nation. And again, I will have to oversimplify for the sake of..."
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"...that of Jacob because Jacob, Israel, gives his name to the new nation of Israel. The second most important person or tribe is Abraham..."
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"...So in other words, if you are a member of this new nation of Israel, you have a deity or an ancestor within the..."
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"...the world. And I will make you a father of a new nation called Israel, okay? And these people will become eventually the Israelites...."
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"...then David's able to unite these people, and he creates a new nation, called Israel, all right? And then Israel is able, under David's..."
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