Returning soldiers spoken about abusively? Jesus! (9)

I believe the answer is:

deliverer

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'jesus' is the definition.
(I know that jesus can be written as Deliverer)

'returning soldiers spoken about' is the wordplay.
'returning' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'soldiers' becomes 're' (Royal Engineers).
'spoken' becomes 'reviled' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'about' is an insertion indicator.
're' placed within 'reviled' is 'rereviled'.
'rereviled' written backwards gives 'DELIVERER'.

'abusively?' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. It may belong to another bit of the clue.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Another definition for deliverer that I've seen is " Saviour".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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