The failure of the King was never in doubt, but what did that matter? He was king, ordained by the Pope, seated on the throne by God. But why would God put a butcher on the throne, choose a man with no regard for his own people’s suffering? That was the only real question.
Unable to answer this question for themselves, the nobles called a council of Rabbis, hoping men of an earlier faith, with a history of bad rulers, might help them understand. They all shook their bearded heads. “We cannot help you,” they replied. “He is yours and so are his sins. A king is only Yahweh’s reflection of his people.”
And for this ancient wisdom, the nobles ordered the Rabbis and their congregants executed, their property confiscated.
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