The Picture Behind The Quote

 Benjamin Disraeli descended from Italian Sephardic Jews from both his maternal and paternal sides. His father was the literary critic and historian Isaac D’Israeli who, though Jewish, had Benjamin baptised and raised in the Church of England. The elder D’Israeli (Benjamin apparently changed the spelling in the 1820s) himself was content to remain outside organized religion. Disraeli considered himself a Jewish Anglican.

His referred quote is compelling considering that it takes his fathers heritage, in the context of the Pentateuch, and ties it to the New Testament. Before the fall, the Ten Commandments, God’s law; was unnecessary. And during the inter-testamental period, the law abiding “pure” were still corrupt in God’s eyes.

When Jesus Christ pointed out to them that , in fact, they were still nothing but fallen law-breakers , and He was the only way to purity, the stage was set for His glorification.