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in the process of redemption and stressed that redemption could come if Jews were faithful to God and his commandments or if the non-Jewish religious and political powers were exceedingly evil and oppressive. A dream Molcho had in 1526 apparently led him to believe he was destined to be either the
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at Rome. He warned the Pope to leave Rome as the city would soon be flooded and he sent a message to the king of
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to urge the creation of a Jewish army, the emperor turned him over to the
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