Like Wallace, I’ve resisted doing this. But here’s my Page 23 Sentence 5 quote:
“Palace and temple, ‘church and state,’ were thus combined, and the result was a government with virtually unlimited, and usually unquestioned, authority.”
From the Tigris to the Tiber which is an introductory Ancient History text by Tom B. Jones.
Sounds a little like what bin Laden and al-Sadr want.