This excerpt reveals Rebecca’s outlook on the nature of killing for a cause by showing she believes that ___________.

Read the excerpt from Ivanhoe.

“I am, indeed,” said Rebecca, “sprung from a race whose courage was distinguished in the defense of their own land, but who warred not, even while yet a nation, save at the command of the Deity, or in defending their country from oppression. The sound of the trumpet wakes Judah no longer, and her despised children are now but the unresisting victims of hostile and military oppression. Well hast thou spoken, Sir Knight,—until the God of Jacob shall raise up for his chosen people a second Gideon, or a new Maccabeus, it ill beseemeth the Jewish damsel to speak of battle or of war.”

This excerpt reveals Rebecca’s outlook on the nature of killing for a cause by showing she believes that ___________.

Which option most accurately completes the statement?