Hermann Samuel Reimarus Quote

[It is] evident that Jesus in no way intended to abolish this Jewish religion and introduce a new one in its place.... From this it follows inevitably that the apostles taught and acted exactly the reverse of what their master had intended, taught, and commanded...

Reimarus: Fragments, ed. Charles H. Talbert, trans. Ralph S. Fraser (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1970), I/19, pp. 41–42