The Messiah comes not only as the redeemer, he comes as the subduer of Antichrist. Only that historian will have the gift of fanning the spark of hope in the past who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious.

Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1: 1913-1926 (ed. Belknap Press, 1996) - ISBN: 9780674945852