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      "chunk_data": "We beg your honour for the love of God, and of the Christian community that you now endeavour to bring back the Patriarch (Ahathalla) whom the Paulists (Jesuits) have taken from us, so that the truth may be known and we may obey and in case the Patriarch cannot be produced, he having been killed by the Paulists, let any other person of any of the four religious orders come here, by order of the Supreme Pontiff, a man who knows Syriac and can teach us in our offices, except the Paulists, whom we do not at all desire, because they are enemies of us and of the Church of Rome; with that exception let anybody come and we are ready to obey without hesitation.",
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