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5J. Samuel Preus, Spinoza and the Irrelevance of Biblical Authority (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 4-6.
6Roy A. Harrisville & Walter Sundberg, The Bible in Modern Culture: Theology and Historical - Critical Method from Spinoza to Kasemann (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1995), p. 35.
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8Benedict de Spinoza, A Theologico- Political Treatise and A Political Treatise, trans, with an introduction by R. H. M. Elwes (New York: Dover, 2004), p. 7
9Benedict de Spinoza, A Theologico- Political Treatise and A Political Treatise, p. 99.
10Leo Strauss, Spinoza' s Critique of Religion (New York: Schocken, 1965), p. 15.