Balfour Declaration
Lord Rotschild is considered to be the father of modern Israel
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Lord Rotschild is considered to be the father of modern Israel
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Marx and Engels were Talmudic scholars
Karl Marx ( born Levi) and another Jew- Friendrich Engels issued " The Communist Manifesto" in 1848 in London.
Marx was descended from a long line of famous rabbis who were so-called "Talmudic scholars". This is the source from which his communist philosophy springs.
Socialism is a concept preached in Talmud
The Talmud preaches tribal form of socialism with ownership of property to be controlled by elders of the community. This is the basis of the Kibbutz communes in Israel. Here is the only nation in the world which has voluntarily adopted communal living. The hundreds of Kibbutz in Israel operate many farms and factories. It is of interest that they are always millions in debt and must be bailed out constantly with US Foreign Aid money.
Racism Against Gentiles is preached in the Talmud
The Talmud preaches that members of the Jewish race are superior to all other races. It says that the Jews rightfully own all the wealth of the Gentiles and should dominate them.
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Karl Marx ( born Levi) and another Jew- Friendrich Engels issued " The Communist Manifesto" in 1848 in London.
Marx was descended from a long line of famous rabbis who were so-called "Talmudic scholars". This is the source from which his communist philosophy springs.
Socialism is a concept preached in Talmud
The Talmud preaches tribal form of socialism with ownership of property to be controlled by elders of the community. This is the basis of the Kibbutz communes in Israel. Here is the only nation in the world which has voluntarily adopted communal living. The hundreds of Kibbutz in Israel operate many farms and factories. It is of interest that they are always millions in debt and must be bailed out constantly with US Foreign Aid money.
Racism Against Gentiles is preached in the Talmud
The Talmud preaches that members of the Jewish race are superior to all other races. It says that the Jews rightfully own all the wealth of the Gentiles and should dominate them.
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Jewish_Influence_on_Christian_Newman,_Louis_Israel_5590_2.pdf
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"Jewish Influence on Christian Reform Movements"
By L.I.Newman
A study of a few “Reform Movements” or heresies in the history of Catholicism during the Middle Ages and of Protestantism during the Reformation era. It has been undertaken with a view to describing and analyzing the contributions by Jews and Judaism to the rise and development of these movements.The author has selected the Iconoclastic Controversy of the IX century, the Catharist, Waldensian, Passagian and Judaizing heresies of the XI, XII and XIII centuries,as they typify “Reform” tendencies within Catholicism. To illustrate similar tendencies in Protestantism, the author has chosen the Hussite movement, the Pre-Reformation period; the Lutheran movement in Germany and the Swiss revolt led by Zwingli, both during the Reformation period; the Unitarian movement promoted by Michael Servetus, and the Puritan movement in England and America, both during the Post-Reformation era.
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By L.I.Newman
A study of a few “Reform Movements” or heresies in the history of Catholicism during the Middle Ages and of Protestantism during the Reformation era. It has been undertaken with a view to describing and analyzing the contributions by Jews and Judaism to the rise and development of these movements.The author has selected the Iconoclastic Controversy of the IX century, the Catharist, Waldensian, Passagian and Judaizing heresies of the XI, XII and XIII centuries,as they typify “Reform” tendencies within Catholicism. To illustrate similar tendencies in Protestantism, the author has chosen the Hussite movement, the Pre-Reformation period; the Lutheran movement in Germany and the Swiss revolt led by Zwingli, both during the Reformation period; the Unitarian movement promoted by Michael Servetus, and the Puritan movement in England and America, both during the Post-Reformation era.
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The teachings of the Church on Judaism
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Cantate Domino, 1441, ex cathedra:
“The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and teaches that the matter pertaining to the law of the Old Testament, of the Mosaic Law, which are divided into ceremonies, sacred rites, sacrifices, and sacraments, because they were established to signify something in the future, although they were suited to divine worship at that time, after our Lord’s coming had been signified by them, ceased, and the sacraments of the New Testament began; and that whoever, even after the passion, placed hope in these matters of the law and submitted himself to them as necessary for salvation, as if faith in Christ could not save without them, sinned mortally. Yet it does not deny that after the passion of Christ up to the promulgation of the Gospel they could have been observed until they were believed to be in no way necessary for salvation; but after the promulgation of the Gospel it asserts that they cannot be observed without the loss of eternal salvation. All, therefore, who after that time (the promulgation of the Gospel) observe circumcision and the Sabbath and the other requirements of the law, it declares alien to the Christian faith and not in the least fit to participate in eternal salvation, unless someday they recover from these errors.”
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, “Cantate Domino,” 1441, ex cathedra:
“The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews or heretics and schismatics, cannot share in eternal life and will go into the everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless they are joined to the Church before the end of their lives; that the unity of this ecclesiastical body is of such importance that only those who abide in it do the Church’s sacraments contribute to salvation and do fasts, almsgiving and other works of piety and practices of the Christian militia productive of eternal rewards; and that nobody can be saved, no matter how much he has given away in alms and even if he has shed blood in the name of Christ, unless he has persevered in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.”
Pope Benedict XIV, Ex Quo Primum (# 61):
“The first consideration is that the ceremonies of the Mosaic Law were abrogated by the coming of Christ and that they can no longer be observed without sin after the promulgation of the Gospel.”
Pope Benedict XIV, Ex Quo Primum (# 59), March 1, 1756:
“However they are not attempting to observe the precepts of the old Law which as everybody knows have been revoked by the coming of Christ.”
Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis #’s 29-30, (1943):
“… the New Testament took the place of the Old Law which had been abolished… Jesus made void the Law with its decrees… To such an extent, then… was there effected a transfer from the Law to the Gospel, from the Synagogue to the Church… that, as our Lord expired, the mystical veil which shut off the innermost part of the temple and its sacred secret was rent violently from top to bottom. On the Cross then the Old Law died…”
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Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Cantate Domino, 1441, ex cathedra:
“The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and teaches that the matter pertaining to the law of the Old Testament, of the Mosaic Law, which are divided into ceremonies, sacred rites, sacrifices, and sacraments, because they were established to signify something in the future, although they were suited to divine worship at that time, after our Lord’s coming had been signified by them, ceased, and the sacraments of the New Testament began; and that whoever, even after the passion, placed hope in these matters of the law and submitted himself to them as necessary for salvation, as if faith in Christ could not save without them, sinned mortally. Yet it does not deny that after the passion of Christ up to the promulgation of the Gospel they could have been observed until they were believed to be in no way necessary for salvation; but after the promulgation of the Gospel it asserts that they cannot be observed without the loss of eternal salvation. All, therefore, who after that time (the promulgation of the Gospel) observe circumcision and the Sabbath and the other requirements of the law, it declares alien to the Christian faith and not in the least fit to participate in eternal salvation, unless someday they recover from these errors.”
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, “Cantate Domino,” 1441, ex cathedra:
“The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews or heretics and schismatics, cannot share in eternal life and will go into the everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless they are joined to the Church before the end of their lives; that the unity of this ecclesiastical body is of such importance that only those who abide in it do the Church’s sacraments contribute to salvation and do fasts, almsgiving and other works of piety and practices of the Christian militia productive of eternal rewards; and that nobody can be saved, no matter how much he has given away in alms and even if he has shed blood in the name of Christ, unless he has persevered in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.”
Pope Benedict XIV, Ex Quo Primum (# 61):
“The first consideration is that the ceremonies of the Mosaic Law were abrogated by the coming of Christ and that they can no longer be observed without sin after the promulgation of the Gospel.”
Pope Benedict XIV, Ex Quo Primum (# 59), March 1, 1756:
“However they are not attempting to observe the precepts of the old Law which as everybody knows have been revoked by the coming of Christ.”
Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis #’s 29-30, (1943):
“… the New Testament took the place of the Old Law which had been abolished… Jesus made void the Law with its decrees… To such an extent, then… was there effected a transfer from the Law to the Gospel, from the Synagogue to the Church… that, as our Lord expired, the mystical veil which shut off the innermost part of the temple and its sacred secret was rent violently from top to bottom. On the Cross then the Old Law died…”
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Hoffman_Judaism's_Strange_Gods_origins_of_talmudic_racial_hatred.pdf
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"Judaism's Strange Gods"
By Michael A. Hoffman
"In this scholarly and deeply considered work, the author documents his provocative thesis that Judaism is not the religion of the Old Testament, but the newly formalized belief system of the Pharisees, which arose in Babylon with the commitment of the formerly oral "tradition of the elders" to writing, in the wake of the crucifixion of Israel's Messiah and the destruction of the Temple...Liberating the reader from the accumulated shackles of decades of misinformation, this book shows that Judaism's God is not the God of Israel, but the strange gods of Talmud and Kabbalah, and the racial self worship they inculcate.
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By Michael A. Hoffman
"In this scholarly and deeply considered work, the author documents his provocative thesis that Judaism is not the religion of the Old Testament, but the newly formalized belief system of the Pharisees, which arose in Babylon with the commitment of the formerly oral "tradition of the elders" to writing, in the wake of the crucifixion of Israel's Messiah and the destruction of the Temple...Liberating the reader from the accumulated shackles of decades of misinformation, this book shows that Judaism's God is not the God of Israel, but the strange gods of Talmud and Kabbalah, and the racial self worship they inculcate.
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"The Talmud Unmasked
The Secret Rabbinical Teachings Concerning Christians"
by Rev. I. B. Pranaitis,
Roman Catholic Priest; Master of Theology and Professor of the Hebrew Language at the Imperial Ecclesiastical Academy of the Roman Catholic Church in Old St. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg, Printing office of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1892
Imprimatur:
St. Petersburg, April 13, 1892
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KIND READER: In this work I have quoted from only a very few of the Talmudic books which refer to the Christians. For the sake of brevity, and to spare your sensitive soul, I omitted many others which could have been included. These texts, however, which I have quoted should be sufficient to demonstrate how false are the statements of the Jews when they claim that there is nothing in the Talmud which teaches hatred and enmity for Christians.
If it revolted you, Christian reader, to study the horrible blasphemies in this book, do not vent your anger on me. I did not state in the beginning that I was going to narrate something pleasant, but merely to show you what the Talmud really teaches about Christians, and I do not think I could have done so in a more suitable way.
I realize, however, that, since the truth does not please everyone, there are many who will become my enemies for thus having borne witness to the truth. And I have been reminded of this, both by the laws of the Talmud itself which threatens death to "traitors," and more so, by the warnings of those who have had experience of the actions which Jews take against those who make known things which are not favorable to them. They all foretold that I would perish at the hands of the Jews. In trying to prevent me from going ahead with my work, some begged me to remember the fate of Professor Charini, who was suddenly killed after he had undertaken to translate the Talmud into the vernacular. Others reminded me of the fate of the monk Didacus of Vilna, a convert from Judaism, who was cruelly murdered; others of those who had been persecuted for having revealed secrets of the Jewish religion. Still others warned me of the danger to those dear to me. "Wszak ciebie żydzi zabiją" (polish- but the Jews will kill you), was repeated to me hundreds of times.
The book you now hold in your hand is the best proof that I did not heed these warnings of my friends. I considered it unworthy of me to keep silent just for the sake of my own personal safety while the conflict rages between the two camps of "Semites" and "Anti Semites," both of which claim they are fighting for the truth, while I know that the whole truth is not to be found in either camp.
But whatever befalls me because of what I have done, I shall gladly suffer it. I am prepared to lay down my life.
That I may bear witness to the truth (John 18, 37)
Full book: http://www.catholicapologetics.info/apologetics/judaism/talmud.htm
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"The Talmud Unmasked
The Secret Rabbinical Teachings Concerning Christians"
by Rev. I. B. Pranaitis,
Roman Catholic Priest; Master of Theology and Professor of the Hebrew Language at the Imperial Ecclesiastical Academy of the Roman Catholic Church in Old St. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg, Printing office of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1892
Imprimatur:
St. Petersburg, April 13, 1892
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KIND READER: In this work I have quoted from only a very few of the Talmudic books which refer to the Christians. For the sake of brevity, and to spare your sensitive soul, I omitted many others which could have been included. These texts, however, which I have quoted should be sufficient to demonstrate how false are the statements of the Jews when they claim that there is nothing in the Talmud which teaches hatred and enmity for Christians.
If it revolted you, Christian reader, to study the horrible blasphemies in this book, do not vent your anger on me. I did not state in the beginning that I was going to narrate something pleasant, but merely to show you what the Talmud really teaches about Christians, and I do not think I could have done so in a more suitable way.
I realize, however, that, since the truth does not please everyone, there are many who will become my enemies for thus having borne witness to the truth. And I have been reminded of this, both by the laws of the Talmud itself which threatens death to "traitors," and more so, by the warnings of those who have had experience of the actions which Jews take against those who make known things which are not favorable to them. They all foretold that I would perish at the hands of the Jews. In trying to prevent me from going ahead with my work, some begged me to remember the fate of Professor Charini, who was suddenly killed after he had undertaken to translate the Talmud into the vernacular. Others reminded me of the fate of the monk Didacus of Vilna, a convert from Judaism, who was cruelly murdered; others of those who had been persecuted for having revealed secrets of the Jewish religion. Still others warned me of the danger to those dear to me. "Wszak ciebie żydzi zabiją" (polish- but the Jews will kill you), was repeated to me hundreds of times.
The book you now hold in your hand is the best proof that I did not heed these warnings of my friends. I considered it unworthy of me to keep silent just for the sake of my own personal safety while the conflict rages between the two camps of "Semites" and "Anti Semites," both of which claim they are fighting for the truth, while I know that the whole truth is not to be found in either camp.
But whatever befalls me because of what I have done, I shall gladly suffer it. I am prepared to lay down my life.
That I may bear witness to the truth (John 18, 37)
Full book: http://www.catholicapologetics.info/apologetics/judaism/talmud.htm
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The Talmud Unmasked
The Talmud Unmasked - find out the the Truth about the Jewish Talmud
"Anti-Semitism, a racial concept in the sense of hatred of the Jews because of immutable and ineradicable racial characteristics, is wrong and has always been repudiated by the Church. However, a Christian must be anti-Jewish in the sense of opposing beliefs and actions of Jews that operate as a consequence of the Jewish rejection of Christ. Many Jews try sincerely to live up to the moral law. Nevertheless, the Jews rejected Logos, the Reason for the universe and its redemption, and so rejected Christ, the Supernatural Messiah, in order to support anti-Christian revolutionary movements. This rejection of Logos has led directly to cultural subversion and collapse of the moral order."
E. Michael Jones
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E. Michael Jones
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More Than Just Male and Female: The Six Genders in Ancient Jewish Thought
https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/37225?lang=bi
"Sefaria is a non-profit organization dedicated to building the future of Jewish learning in an open and participatory way. We are assembling a free living library of Jewish texts and their interconnections, in Hebrew and in translation. With these digital texts, we can create new, interactive interfaces for Web, tablet and mobile, allowing more people to engage with the textual treasures of our tradition."
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https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/37225?lang=bi
"Sefaria is a non-profit organization dedicated to building the future of Jewish learning in an open and participatory way. We are assembling a free living library of Jewish texts and their interconnections, in Hebrew and in translation. With these digital texts, we can create new, interactive interfaces for Web, tablet and mobile, allowing more people to engage with the textual treasures of our tradition."
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The prayer for the Jews in the pre-1955 Mass of the Presanctified on Good Friday reads as follows:
"Let us pray also for the faithless Jews [perfidis Judaeis]: that Almighty God may remove the veil from their hearts; so that they too may acknowledge Jesus Christ our Lord. [No instruction to kneel or to rise is given, but immediately is said:] Almighty and eternal God, who dost not exclude from Thy mercy even Jewish faithlessness [Judaicam perfidiam]: hear our prayers, which we offer for the blindness of that people; that acknowledging the light of thy Truth, which is Christ, they may be delivered from their darkness. Through the same our Lord Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen."
"Oremus et pro perfidis Judaeis: ut Deus et Dominus noster auf erat velamen de cordibus eorum; ut et ipsi agnoscant Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum. Non respondetur Amen, nee dicitur Oremus, aut Flectamus genua, aut Levate, sed statim dicitur: Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui etiam Judaicam perfidìam a tua misericordia non repellis: exaudí preces nostras, quas pro illiuspopuli obcaecatione deferimus; ut, agnita veritatis tuae luce, quae Christus est, a suis tenebris eruantur. Per eumdem Dominum. Amen"
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Henri de Lubac devotes an entire chapter of his famous work Medieval Exegesis to the meaning of the word perfidis in patristic literature. It does not mean “perfidious” or “treacherous” or “nefarious.” In Christian vocabulary, it is the right word to designate the idea of being unfaithful to a commitment one had undertaken. The Israelites accepted the old covenant, which was ordered to accepting the Messiah. By not having received Him when He came, they were guilty of infidelity to the Lord.
The prayer expresses accurately, and charitably the teaching of the New Testament and of the Church, ordered to the salvation of all mankind in Christ.
"The liturgy does not pass moral judgments, nor would it label the Jews "treacherous" or "wicked." In saying perfidia judaica, the Church mourns Israel's disbelief in Christ, holding that from Abraham's children, least of all, would one expect such refusal of faith.",-John M. Oesterreicher
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"Let us pray also for the faithless Jews [perfidis Judaeis]: that Almighty God may remove the veil from their hearts; so that they too may acknowledge Jesus Christ our Lord. [No instruction to kneel or to rise is given, but immediately is said:] Almighty and eternal God, who dost not exclude from Thy mercy even Jewish faithlessness [Judaicam perfidiam]: hear our prayers, which we offer for the blindness of that people; that acknowledging the light of thy Truth, which is Christ, they may be delivered from their darkness. Through the same our Lord Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen."
"Oremus et pro perfidis Judaeis: ut Deus et Dominus noster auf erat velamen de cordibus eorum; ut et ipsi agnoscant Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum. Non respondetur Amen, nee dicitur Oremus, aut Flectamus genua, aut Levate, sed statim dicitur: Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui etiam Judaicam perfidìam a tua misericordia non repellis: exaudí preces nostras, quas pro illiuspopuli obcaecatione deferimus; ut, agnita veritatis tuae luce, quae Christus est, a suis tenebris eruantur. Per eumdem Dominum. Amen"
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Henri de Lubac devotes an entire chapter of his famous work Medieval Exegesis to the meaning of the word perfidis in patristic literature. It does not mean “perfidious” or “treacherous” or “nefarious.” In Christian vocabulary, it is the right word to designate the idea of being unfaithful to a commitment one had undertaken. The Israelites accepted the old covenant, which was ordered to accepting the Messiah. By not having received Him when He came, they were guilty of infidelity to the Lord.
The prayer expresses accurately, and charitably the teaching of the New Testament and of the Church, ordered to the salvation of all mankind in Christ.
"The liturgy does not pass moral judgments, nor would it label the Jews "treacherous" or "wicked." In saying perfidia judaica, the Church mourns Israel's disbelief in Christ, holding that from Abraham's children, least of all, would one expect such refusal of faith.",-John M. Oesterreicher
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Ecce Verbum
The prayer for the Jews in the pre-1955 Mass of the Presanctified on Good Friday reads as follows: "Let us pray also for the faithless Jews [perfidis Judaeis]: that Almighty God may remove the veil from their hearts; so that they too may acknowledge Jesus…
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Pro Perfidis Judaeis
John M. Oesterreicher
Mankattanville College of the Sacred Heart
On Good Friday, the Church solemnly intercedes for all within and without her fold. Among her petitions is one for the Jewish
people.
Two problems arise in regard to this prayer: the meaning of perfidia and perfidus, and the significance of the rubric directing certain omissions.
The St. Andrew Missal in its 1927 edition reads: "Let us pray for the perfidious Jews"; in the edition of 1943, this is changed to: "Let us pray for the faithless Jews." Father Lasance's Missal of 1935 speaks of the "unfaithful Jews" and of "Jewish faithlessness." The Missal of Fathers Callan and McHugh gives in all editions the rendering "perfidious Jews." Father Stedman's Lenten Missal {1941) translates: "Let us pray for the unbelieving Jews."
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*(perusing recommended)
Pro Perfidis Judaeis
John M. Oesterreicher
Mankattanville College of the Sacred Heart
On Good Friday, the Church solemnly intercedes for all within and without her fold. Among her petitions is one for the Jewish
people.
Two problems arise in regard to this prayer: the meaning of perfidia and perfidus, and the significance of the rubric directing certain omissions.
The St. Andrew Missal in its 1927 edition reads: "Let us pray for the perfidious Jews"; in the edition of 1943, this is changed to: "Let us pray for the faithless Jews." Father Lasance's Missal of 1935 speaks of the "unfaithful Jews" and of "Jewish faithlessness." The Missal of Fathers Callan and McHugh gives in all editions the rendering "perfidious Jews." Father Stedman's Lenten Missal {1941) translates: "Let us pray for the unbelieving Jews."
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The doctrine of creative destruction (Jewish Mysticism)
It is often identified with dualism, a belief which constitutes a part of gnostic philosophy.
According to the Kabbalah, which is the defining doctrine of Judaism and Freemasonry, "Evil and catastrophe are endemic factors in the process of creation. Without evil there could be no good, without destruction, creation could not take place."
Kabbalah: An Introduction to Jewish Mysticism, by Byron L. Sherwin, p. 72
"We Jews, we are the destroyers and will remain destroyers. Nothing you can do will meet our demands and needs. We will forever destroy because we want a world of our own."
Maurice Samuel, You Gentiles, pg. 155
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It is often identified with dualism, a belief which constitutes a part of gnostic philosophy.
According to the Kabbalah, which is the defining doctrine of Judaism and Freemasonry, "Evil and catastrophe are endemic factors in the process of creation. Without evil there could be no good, without destruction, creation could not take place."
Kabbalah: An Introduction to Jewish Mysticism, by Byron L. Sherwin, p. 72
"We Jews, we are the destroyers and will remain destroyers. Nothing you can do will meet our demands and needs. We will forever destroy because we want a world of our own."
Maurice Samuel, You Gentiles, pg. 155
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Ecce Verbum
St. Thomas Aquinas on the Relationship between Christianity and Judaism after Christ 1. Christianity is the continuity (fulfilment) of the faith of the Judaism of the Old Covenant. As regards the substance of the articles of faith, they have not received…
Thus, God also harmoniously gave one set of sacraments and commandments before the Incarnation to point to the future, and another set after the Incarnation to deliver things present and bring to mind things past. (Summa contra Gentiles, IV.57, 2)
5. Professing “Judaism” after the time of Christ — that is, holding on to the Old Covenant in its oldness after it has been fulfilled — is objectively a grave sin based on a grave theological error:
All ceremonies are professions of faith, in which the interior worship of God consists. Now man can make profession of his inward faith, by deeds as well as by words: and in either profession, if he make a false declaration, he sins mortally. Now, though our faith in Christ is the same as that of the fathers of old; yet, since they came before Christ, whereas we come after Him, the same faith is expressed in different words, by us and by them. For by them was it said: “Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son,” where the verbs are in the future tense: whereas we express the same by means of verbs in the past tense, and say that she “conceived and bore.” In like manner the ceremonies of the Old Law betokened Christ as having yet to be born and to suffer: whereas our sacraments signify Him as already born and having suffered. Consequently, just as it would be a mortal sin now for anyone, in making a profession of faith, to say that Christ is yet to be born, which the fathers of old said devoutly and truthfully; so too it would be a mortal sin now to observe those ceremonies which the fathers of old fulfilled with devotion and fidelity. Such is the teaching Augustine (Contra Faust. xix, 16), who says: “It is no longer promised that He shall be born, shall suffer and rise again, truths of which their sacraments were a kind of image: but it is declared that He is already born, has suffered and risen again; of which our sacraments, in which Christians share, are the actual representation.” (Summa theologiae, I-II, Q. 103, art. 4)
6. The Old and New Laws are not parallel; the Old Law was a step in God’s divine economy, in which the New Law is the goal.
Accordingly then two laws may be distinguished from one another in two ways. First, through being altogether diverse, from the fact that they are ordained to diverse ends: thus a state-law ordained to democratic government, would differ specifically from a law ordained to government by the aristocracy. Secondly, two laws may be distinguished from one another, through one of them being more closely connected with the end, and the other more remotely: thus in one and the same state there is one law enjoined on men of mature age, who can forthwith accomplish that which pertains to the common good; and another law regulating the education of children who need to be taught how they are to achieve manly deeds later on. We must therefore say that, according to the first way, the New Law is not distinct from the Old Law: because they both have the same end, namely, man’s subjection to God; and there is but one God of the New and of the Old Testament, according to Romans 3:30: “It is one God that justifieth circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.” According to the second way, the New Law is distinct from the Old Law: because the Old Law is like a pedagogue of children, as the Apostle says (Galatians 3:24), whereas the New Law is the law of perfection, since it is the law of charity, of which the Apostle says (Colossians 3:14) that it is “the bond of perfection.” (Summa theologiae, I-II, Q. 107, art. 1; see also the responses to the objections)
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5. Professing “Judaism” after the time of Christ — that is, holding on to the Old Covenant in its oldness after it has been fulfilled — is objectively a grave sin based on a grave theological error:
All ceremonies are professions of faith, in which the interior worship of God consists. Now man can make profession of his inward faith, by deeds as well as by words: and in either profession, if he make a false declaration, he sins mortally. Now, though our faith in Christ is the same as that of the fathers of old; yet, since they came before Christ, whereas we come after Him, the same faith is expressed in different words, by us and by them. For by them was it said: “Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son,” where the verbs are in the future tense: whereas we express the same by means of verbs in the past tense, and say that she “conceived and bore.” In like manner the ceremonies of the Old Law betokened Christ as having yet to be born and to suffer: whereas our sacraments signify Him as already born and having suffered. Consequently, just as it would be a mortal sin now for anyone, in making a profession of faith, to say that Christ is yet to be born, which the fathers of old said devoutly and truthfully; so too it would be a mortal sin now to observe those ceremonies which the fathers of old fulfilled with devotion and fidelity. Such is the teaching Augustine (Contra Faust. xix, 16), who says: “It is no longer promised that He shall be born, shall suffer and rise again, truths of which their sacraments were a kind of image: but it is declared that He is already born, has suffered and risen again; of which our sacraments, in which Christians share, are the actual representation.” (Summa theologiae, I-II, Q. 103, art. 4)
6. The Old and New Laws are not parallel; the Old Law was a step in God’s divine economy, in which the New Law is the goal.
Accordingly then two laws may be distinguished from one another in two ways. First, through being altogether diverse, from the fact that they are ordained to diverse ends: thus a state-law ordained to democratic government, would differ specifically from a law ordained to government by the aristocracy. Secondly, two laws may be distinguished from one another, through one of them being more closely connected with the end, and the other more remotely: thus in one and the same state there is one law enjoined on men of mature age, who can forthwith accomplish that which pertains to the common good; and another law regulating the education of children who need to be taught how they are to achieve manly deeds later on. We must therefore say that, according to the first way, the New Law is not distinct from the Old Law: because they both have the same end, namely, man’s subjection to God; and there is but one God of the New and of the Old Testament, according to Romans 3:30: “It is one God that justifieth circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.” According to the second way, the New Law is distinct from the Old Law: because the Old Law is like a pedagogue of children, as the Apostle says (Galatians 3:24), whereas the New Law is the law of perfection, since it is the law of charity, of which the Apostle says (Colossians 3:14) that it is “the bond of perfection.” (Summa theologiae, I-II, Q. 107, art. 1; see also the responses to the objections)
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01.06 - Saint Justin He was born in Palestine around the year 100. He was well educated and became a professor of philosophy. He was interested in the meaning of life and why the world and people exist. He studied and taught about the great philosophers of…
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Justin Martyr's "Dialogue with Trypho the Jew," Prologue.
This is the famous "Prologue" to Justin's Dialogue. In it, he describes how he was converted to Christianity from the best of pagan Greek philosophy, and furthermore was converted on basically philosophical grounds.
It is seen as documenting the attempts by theologian Justin Martyr to show that Christianity is the new law for all men, and to prove from Scripture that Jesus is the Jewish Messiah. The Dialogue utilizes the literary device of an intellectual conversation between Justin and Trypho, a Hellenistic Jew.
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St. Thomas Aquinas on the Relationship between Christianity and Judaism after Christ
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This is the famous "Prologue" to Justin's Dialogue. In it, he describes how he was converted to Christianity from the best of pagan Greek philosophy, and furthermore was converted on basically philosophical grounds.
It is seen as documenting the attempts by theologian Justin Martyr to show that Christianity is the new law for all men, and to prove from Scripture that Jesus is the Jewish Messiah. The Dialogue utilizes the literary device of an intellectual conversation between Justin and Trypho, a Hellenistic Jew.
online read
more on the topic
St. Thomas Aquinas on the Relationship between Christianity and Judaism after Christ
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Ecce Verbum
The Great Saints Of The Catholic Church Criticized Judaism And Jewish Behavior For The Sake Of Their Salvation, Not Condemnation 1. St. Justin Martyr has arguably the oldest document on Christian-Jewish polemics in the Church in his dialogue with a Jew named…
The Great Saints Of The Catholic Church Criticized Judaism And Jewish Behavior For The Sake Of Their Salvation, Not Condemnation
2. St. Irenaeus, the great second-century saint who lived around the time that St. Justin Martyr did, wrote in his book against heresies that while the revelation of God came to Israel, the Jews gave up on God and so God left them, with their grace passing to the Apostles, who went out and converted the entire world both Jew and non-Jew from among all peoples, and that man has free will, for to quote Christ, he who receives the gospel will be saved, but he who does not is condemned.
"He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire, having His fan in His hand to cleanse His floor; and He will gather His fruit into the garner, but the chaff He will burn up with unquenchable fire.” For He who makes the chaff and He who makes the wheat are not different persons, but one and the same, who judges them, that is, separates them. But the wheat and the chaff, being inanimate and irrational, have been made such by nature. But man, being endowed with reason, and in this respect like to God, having been made free in his will, and with power over himself, is himself the cause to himself, that sometimes he becomes wheat, and sometimes chaff. Wherefore also he shall be justly condemned, because, having been created a rational being, he lost the true rationality, and living irrationally, opposed the righteousness of God, giving himself over to every earthly spirit, and serving all lusts; as says the prophet, “Man, being in honour, did not understand: he was assimilated to senseless beasts, and made like to them." (source here for full context)
3. St. Hippolytus of Rome, who was martyred by being dragged to death by wild horses for his Catholic faith, writes about the Jews in many places. He says that the scattering of the Jews and the destruction of the Temple was fulfilled because of the rejection of the Messiah, just as how the Original Sin of Adam and Eve affected the whole human race, and just as the condition of sin affects all men, so does the condition of the Jew who persists in holding to the beliefs of those who rejected and murdered God’s son.
"For this reason, even up to our day, though they see the boundaries (of their country), and go round about them, they stand afar off. And therefore have they no longer king or high priest or prophet, nor even scribes and Pharisees and Sadducees among them. He does not, however, say that they are to be cut off; wherefore their race still subsists, and the succession of their children is continued. For they have not been cut off nor consumed from among men— but they are and exist still — yet only as those who have been rejected and cast down from the honour of which of old they were deemed worthy by God. But again, Scatter them, he says. by Your power; which word has also come to pass. For they are scattered throughout the whole earth, in servitude everywhere, and engaging in the lowest and most servile occupations, and doing any unseemly work for hunger’s sake.
For if they were destroyed from among men, and remained nowhere among the living, they could not see my people, he means, nor know my Church in its prosperity. Therefore scatter them everywhere on earth, where my Church is to be established, in order that when they see the Church founded by me, they may be roused to emulate it in piety. And these things did the Saviour also ask on their behalf". (source here for context)
*Hippolytus also wrote and entire treatise against the Jews, where he describes how the Jews rejected the forgiveness of God given by Christ by their obstinacy and refusal to accept Him, and abusing him instead. (see full document here) (for more examples from Hyppolytus, one can see here)
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2. St. Irenaeus, the great second-century saint who lived around the time that St. Justin Martyr did, wrote in his book against heresies that while the revelation of God came to Israel, the Jews gave up on God and so God left them, with their grace passing to the Apostles, who went out and converted the entire world both Jew and non-Jew from among all peoples, and that man has free will, for to quote Christ, he who receives the gospel will be saved, but he who does not is condemned.
"He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire, having His fan in His hand to cleanse His floor; and He will gather His fruit into the garner, but the chaff He will burn up with unquenchable fire.” For He who makes the chaff and He who makes the wheat are not different persons, but one and the same, who judges them, that is, separates them. But the wheat and the chaff, being inanimate and irrational, have been made such by nature. But man, being endowed with reason, and in this respect like to God, having been made free in his will, and with power over himself, is himself the cause to himself, that sometimes he becomes wheat, and sometimes chaff. Wherefore also he shall be justly condemned, because, having been created a rational being, he lost the true rationality, and living irrationally, opposed the righteousness of God, giving himself over to every earthly spirit, and serving all lusts; as says the prophet, “Man, being in honour, did not understand: he was assimilated to senseless beasts, and made like to them." (source here for full context)
3. St. Hippolytus of Rome, who was martyred by being dragged to death by wild horses for his Catholic faith, writes about the Jews in many places. He says that the scattering of the Jews and the destruction of the Temple was fulfilled because of the rejection of the Messiah, just as how the Original Sin of Adam and Eve affected the whole human race, and just as the condition of sin affects all men, so does the condition of the Jew who persists in holding to the beliefs of those who rejected and murdered God’s son.
"For this reason, even up to our day, though they see the boundaries (of their country), and go round about them, they stand afar off. And therefore have they no longer king or high priest or prophet, nor even scribes and Pharisees and Sadducees among them. He does not, however, say that they are to be cut off; wherefore their race still subsists, and the succession of their children is continued. For they have not been cut off nor consumed from among men— but they are and exist still — yet only as those who have been rejected and cast down from the honour of which of old they were deemed worthy by God. But again, Scatter them, he says. by Your power; which word has also come to pass. For they are scattered throughout the whole earth, in servitude everywhere, and engaging in the lowest and most servile occupations, and doing any unseemly work for hunger’s sake.
For if they were destroyed from among men, and remained nowhere among the living, they could not see my people, he means, nor know my Church in its prosperity. Therefore scatter them everywhere on earth, where my Church is to be established, in order that when they see the Church founded by me, they may be roused to emulate it in piety. And these things did the Saviour also ask on their behalf". (source here for context)
*Hippolytus also wrote and entire treatise against the Jews, where he describes how the Jews rejected the forgiveness of God given by Christ by their obstinacy and refusal to accept Him, and abusing him instead. (see full document here) (for more examples from Hyppolytus, one can see here)
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Ecce Verbum
The Great Saints Of The Catholic Church Criticized Judaism And Jewish Behavior For The Sake Of Their Salvation, Not Condemnation 2. St. Irenaeus, the great second-century saint who lived around the time that St. Justin Martyr did, wrote in his book against…
The Great Saints Of The Catholic Church Criticized Judaism And Jewish Behavior For The Sake Of Their Salvation, Not Condemnation
4. St. Cyprian of Carthage wrote three books about Judaism, and he said that he wrote them because he “endeavoured to show that the Jews, according to what had before been foretold, had departed from God, and had lost God’s favour, which had been given them in past time, and had been promised them for the future; while the Christians had succeeded to their place, deserving well of the Lord by faith, and coming out of all nations and from the whole world” and to describe “the sacrament of Christ, that He has come who was announced according to the Scriptures, and has done and perfected all those things whereby He was foretold as being able to be perceived and known.” (source here for full books)
5. St. Gregory Thaumaturgus notes in his second homily about the Blessed Virgin that the reason why God stripped power from the Jews is because “because they used their riches ill and their power lawlessly”, fulfilling the words of the Blessed Virgin in Luke, “He has put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.” He says that Israel is “not any Israel in general, indeed, but His servant, who in very deed maintains the true nobility of Israel”, which he links to those men who embrace Christ as Lord and Savior and strive to honor Him. (see his full homily here)
6. St. Peter I of Alexandria, who was martyred during the Diocletian persecutions, said that “the Jews never erred” when it came to the observation and fulfillment of ritual duties, such as the Sabbath and Passover. He says that the problem was “on account of all their other disobedience, and on account of their evil and unseemly deeds”, which he lists include “turning to idolatry and to fornication”. The issue is not one of people, or legalism, but one of behaviors. (source here)
7. St. Gregory of Nyssa says that the relationship between the decline of Jerusalem and Jewish power corresponds with the rise of the Messiah, for the fall of the once great city of Jerusalem is to make way for the Heavenly Jerusalem that dwells within each of us, and that those who persisted in following in the old ways, like the city and temple that was destroyed, were scattered throughout the earth. (source here)
8. St. Hillary of Poitiers warns people not to follow in the example of the Jews, of denying Christ, lest they also be made anathema, for if one believes in the Bible, and he who does not believe in Christ is condemned, what else can be said of the Jews whose religion involves as a necessity the denial of Christ? (source here)
9. St. John Chrysostom was one of the most famous of all the saints of the ancient world. He was known for a series of homilies he gave against Judaism in which he criticized the fundamental positions of the Church- that Christ came for all, that the Jews murdered him, and that all must convert in order to be saved. He criticized the oldest heresy, which is the trend to Judaizing in the Church (and is the earliest heresy noted in sacred scripture), and how modern Judaism’s rejection of Christ has made it as bad as and worse than paganism, for at least paganism is a genuine search for god for many, while the rejection of Christ is to know God but to choose to rebel against Him, instead returning to the evils of Babylon by choice to the direct opposition of God (source of the sermons).
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4. St. Cyprian of Carthage wrote three books about Judaism, and he said that he wrote them because he “endeavoured to show that the Jews, according to what had before been foretold, had departed from God, and had lost God’s favour, which had been given them in past time, and had been promised them for the future; while the Christians had succeeded to their place, deserving well of the Lord by faith, and coming out of all nations and from the whole world” and to describe “the sacrament of Christ, that He has come who was announced according to the Scriptures, and has done and perfected all those things whereby He was foretold as being able to be perceived and known.” (source here for full books)
5. St. Gregory Thaumaturgus notes in his second homily about the Blessed Virgin that the reason why God stripped power from the Jews is because “because they used their riches ill and their power lawlessly”, fulfilling the words of the Blessed Virgin in Luke, “He has put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.” He says that Israel is “not any Israel in general, indeed, but His servant, who in very deed maintains the true nobility of Israel”, which he links to those men who embrace Christ as Lord and Savior and strive to honor Him. (see his full homily here)
6. St. Peter I of Alexandria, who was martyred during the Diocletian persecutions, said that “the Jews never erred” when it came to the observation and fulfillment of ritual duties, such as the Sabbath and Passover. He says that the problem was “on account of all their other disobedience, and on account of their evil and unseemly deeds”, which he lists include “turning to idolatry and to fornication”. The issue is not one of people, or legalism, but one of behaviors. (source here)
7. St. Gregory of Nyssa says that the relationship between the decline of Jerusalem and Jewish power corresponds with the rise of the Messiah, for the fall of the once great city of Jerusalem is to make way for the Heavenly Jerusalem that dwells within each of us, and that those who persisted in following in the old ways, like the city and temple that was destroyed, were scattered throughout the earth. (source here)
8. St. Hillary of Poitiers warns people not to follow in the example of the Jews, of denying Christ, lest they also be made anathema, for if one believes in the Bible, and he who does not believe in Christ is condemned, what else can be said of the Jews whose religion involves as a necessity the denial of Christ? (source here)
9. St. John Chrysostom was one of the most famous of all the saints of the ancient world. He was known for a series of homilies he gave against Judaism in which he criticized the fundamental positions of the Church- that Christ came for all, that the Jews murdered him, and that all must convert in order to be saved. He criticized the oldest heresy, which is the trend to Judaizing in the Church (and is the earliest heresy noted in sacred scripture), and how modern Judaism’s rejection of Christ has made it as bad as and worse than paganism, for at least paganism is a genuine search for god for many, while the rejection of Christ is to know God but to choose to rebel against Him, instead returning to the evils of Babylon by choice to the direct opposition of God (source of the sermons).
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Ecce Verbum
The Great Saints Of The Catholic Church Criticized Judaism And Jewish Behavior For The Sake Of Their Salvation, Not Condemnation 4. St. Cyprian of Carthage wrote three books about Judaism, and he said that he wrote them because he “endeavoured to show that…
The Great Saints Of The Catholic Church Criticized Judaism And Jewish Behavior For The Sake Of Their Salvation, Not Condemnation
10. St. Maximus of Turin also spoke about the Jews, and in a sermon he noted that while the Jews murdered Christ and they received punishment for it, Christ also prayed for them, and forgave them that if they would convert they too could also be saved:
"For when, condemned by the Godless, Christ hung upon the Cross, and the Jews in their evil rage mocked Him they had crucified, in the midst of His agony, this kind Petitioner prayed to His Almighty Father for His executioners, and said: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do (Lk 23:34). And though in His hands was the judgement of both the living and the dead, He implored pardon for those who were then perishing in sin; and this, I believe, that He might show us beyond any manner of doubt, that He forgave them their awful crime, and that His Father would also spare them, if they, putting away their unbelief, would come together in Christ’s Name. For who can doubt the effect of that prayer, where He Who is Goodness asks help for those in misery? They know not, He says, what they do. The Jews knew well that they were shedding the blood of an innocent Man; but they did not know that the guilt of all men was being washed away in that Blood. They knew they were punishing Christ by this most bitter torment of the Cross; but they did not know that it was through this Cross the Son of God would triumph. They knew He would die; but they did not know He would rise again. So, well might the Lord declare: They know not what they do.” (source)
11. St. Augustine, the great doctor of the Church whose writing have stood throughout the ages, says much the same as the other saints about the punishment of the Jews for murdering Christ, but also adds that God, in the End Times, will see to it that the Jews are given a clear chance to repent, and that many will come to faith in the True Messiah.
"It is a familiar theme in the conversation and heart of the faithful, that in the last days before the judgment the Jews shall believe in the true Christ, that is, our Christ, by means of this great and admirable prophet Elias who shall expound the law to them. For not without reason do we hope that before the coming of our Judge and Saviour Elias shall come, because we have good reason to believe that he is now alive; for, as Scripture most distinctly informs us,1475 he was taken up from this life in a chariot of fire. When, therefore, he is come, he shall give a spiritual explanation of the law which the Jews at present understand carnally, and shall thus “turn the heart of the father to the son,” ..And the meaning is, that the sons, that is, the Jews, shall understand the law as the fathers, that is, the prophets, and among them Moses himself, understood it. … and that the Jews also, who had previously hated, should then love the Son who is our Christ. For so far as regards the Jews, God has His heart turned away from our Christ, this being their conception about God and Christ." (source)
12. St. Hugh of Lincoln, not to be confused with Little St. Hugh of Lincoln, was a Catholic bishop who was known being a very good bishop and shepherd of the priests and people in his diocese as well as involved in the controversies of his time. One of the many things that he is known for is for standing up for the rights of the English Jewish community at Lincoln against unjust persecution by people in society, especially at the hands of vigilantes. (source)
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10. St. Maximus of Turin also spoke about the Jews, and in a sermon he noted that while the Jews murdered Christ and they received punishment for it, Christ also prayed for them, and forgave them that if they would convert they too could also be saved:
"For when, condemned by the Godless, Christ hung upon the Cross, and the Jews in their evil rage mocked Him they had crucified, in the midst of His agony, this kind Petitioner prayed to His Almighty Father for His executioners, and said: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do (Lk 23:34). And though in His hands was the judgement of both the living and the dead, He implored pardon for those who were then perishing in sin; and this, I believe, that He might show us beyond any manner of doubt, that He forgave them their awful crime, and that His Father would also spare them, if they, putting away their unbelief, would come together in Christ’s Name. For who can doubt the effect of that prayer, where He Who is Goodness asks help for those in misery? They know not, He says, what they do. The Jews knew well that they were shedding the blood of an innocent Man; but they did not know that the guilt of all men was being washed away in that Blood. They knew they were punishing Christ by this most bitter torment of the Cross; but they did not know that it was through this Cross the Son of God would triumph. They knew He would die; but they did not know He would rise again. So, well might the Lord declare: They know not what they do.” (source)
11. St. Augustine, the great doctor of the Church whose writing have stood throughout the ages, says much the same as the other saints about the punishment of the Jews for murdering Christ, but also adds that God, in the End Times, will see to it that the Jews are given a clear chance to repent, and that many will come to faith in the True Messiah.
"It is a familiar theme in the conversation and heart of the faithful, that in the last days before the judgment the Jews shall believe in the true Christ, that is, our Christ, by means of this great and admirable prophet Elias who shall expound the law to them. For not without reason do we hope that before the coming of our Judge and Saviour Elias shall come, because we have good reason to believe that he is now alive; for, as Scripture most distinctly informs us,1475 he was taken up from this life in a chariot of fire. When, therefore, he is come, he shall give a spiritual explanation of the law which the Jews at present understand carnally, and shall thus “turn the heart of the father to the son,” ..And the meaning is, that the sons, that is, the Jews, shall understand the law as the fathers, that is, the prophets, and among them Moses himself, understood it. … and that the Jews also, who had previously hated, should then love the Son who is our Christ. For so far as regards the Jews, God has His heart turned away from our Christ, this being their conception about God and Christ." (source)
12. St. Hugh of Lincoln, not to be confused with Little St. Hugh of Lincoln, was a Catholic bishop who was known being a very good bishop and shepherd of the priests and people in his diocese as well as involved in the controversies of his time. One of the many things that he is known for is for standing up for the rights of the English Jewish community at Lincoln against unjust persecution by people in society, especially at the hands of vigilantes. (source)
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CHURCH FATHERS (61) - Saint Maximus of Turin
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Saint Maximus of Turin (Northern Italy) lived between the 4th and the 5th centuries. We don't know much about his life, we have mostly information coming from his sermons. Gennadius, of whom we talked already, in his De viris illustribus gives…
Saint Maximus of Turin (Northern Italy) lived between the 4th and the 5th centuries. We don't know much about his life, we have mostly information coming from his sermons. Gennadius, of whom we talked already, in his De viris illustribus gives…
Ecce Verbum
The Great Saints Of The Catholic Church Criticized Judaism And Jewish Behavior For The Sake Of Their Salvation, Not Condemnation 10. St. Maximus of Turin also spoke about the Jews, and in a sermon he noted that while the Jews murdered Christ and they received…
The Great Saints Of The Catholic Church Criticized Judaism And Jewish Behavior For The Sake Of Their Salvation, Not Condemnation
13. St. Thomas Aquinas says that not only did Christ come to preach to the Jews, but that the Jews should, in perfect charity, be criticized harshly because:
It was foretold (Is.8:14) that Christ would be “for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to the two houses of Israel.”
I answer that, The salvation of the multitude is to be preferred to the peace of any individuals whatsoever. Consequently, when certain ones, by their perverseness, hinder the salvation of the multitude, the preacher and the teacher should not fear to offend those men, in order that he may insure the salvation of the multitude. Now the Scribes and Pharisees and the princes of the Jews were by their malice a considerable hindrance to the salvation of the people, both because they opposed themselves to Christ’s doctrine, which was the only way to salvation, and because their evil ways corrupted the morals of the people. For which reason our Lord, undeterred by their taking offense, publicly taught the truth which they hated, and condemned their vices. Hence we read (Matthew 15:12,14) that when the disciples of our Lord said: “Dost Thou know that the Pharisees, when they heard this word, were scandalized?” He answered: “Let them alone: they are blind and leaders of the blind; and if the blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit.” (source)
14. Pope Gregory X defended Jews from unlawful accusations, saying that Jews are people and accusations made against them must be just, for “since it happens occasionally that some Christians lose their Christian children, the Jews are accused by their enemies of secretly carrying off and killing these same Christian children and of making sacrifices of the heart and blood of these very children,” as a result, “inasmuch as the Jews are not able to bear witness against the Christians, we decree furthermore that the testimony of Christians against Jews shall not be valid unless there is among these Christians some Jew who is there for the purpose of offering testimony.” He also criticized them for holding to falsehoods but said they cannot be abused. As he noted, “Jews prefer to persist in their stubbornness rather than to recognize the words of their prophets and the mysteries of the Scriptures and thus arrive at a knowledge of the Christian faith and salvation,” but “no Christian shall stir up anything new against them, but that they should be maintained in that status and position in which they were in the time of our predecessors, from antiquity till now.” (source)
15. St. Bernardino of Siena, one of the great preachers of the Medieval period, preached equally against Jews, sodomites, and usurers, noting the link between all three. Indeed, this pattern is even visible today, noting the disproportionate representation of Jews in banking and thus usury, as well as the tremendous amount of homosexuality among Jews, so much that Israel is one of the most sodomite-friendly nations in the world.
16. St. Bernard Clairvaux, one of the great preachers of the Crusaders and evangelists of Church history, said that the Jews have already been punished by their exile, and that Christians are not to unjustly abuse them for being Jews or out of hatred, but will eventually be converted by the grace of God. This is even noted in the Jewish Encyclopedia.
17. Bl Juliana of Norwich, in her Revelations of Divine Love, says that in a vision of the Passion, she saw that those who rejected Christ were condemned, including the Jews.
"For I had sight of the Passion of Christ in diverse Shewings–the First, the Second, the Fifth, and the Eighth, wherein I had in part a feeling of the sorrow of our Lady, and of His true friends that saw Him in pain; but I saw not so properly specified the Jews that did Him to death. Notwithstanding I knew in my Faith that they were accursed and condemned without end, saving those that converted by grace."(source)
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13. St. Thomas Aquinas says that not only did Christ come to preach to the Jews, but that the Jews should, in perfect charity, be criticized harshly because:
It was foretold (Is.8:14) that Christ would be “for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to the two houses of Israel.”
I answer that, The salvation of the multitude is to be preferred to the peace of any individuals whatsoever. Consequently, when certain ones, by their perverseness, hinder the salvation of the multitude, the preacher and the teacher should not fear to offend those men, in order that he may insure the salvation of the multitude. Now the Scribes and Pharisees and the princes of the Jews were by their malice a considerable hindrance to the salvation of the people, both because they opposed themselves to Christ’s doctrine, which was the only way to salvation, and because their evil ways corrupted the morals of the people. For which reason our Lord, undeterred by their taking offense, publicly taught the truth which they hated, and condemned their vices. Hence we read (Matthew 15:12,14) that when the disciples of our Lord said: “Dost Thou know that the Pharisees, when they heard this word, were scandalized?” He answered: “Let them alone: they are blind and leaders of the blind; and if the blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit.” (source)
14. Pope Gregory X defended Jews from unlawful accusations, saying that Jews are people and accusations made against them must be just, for “since it happens occasionally that some Christians lose their Christian children, the Jews are accused by their enemies of secretly carrying off and killing these same Christian children and of making sacrifices of the heart and blood of these very children,” as a result, “inasmuch as the Jews are not able to bear witness against the Christians, we decree furthermore that the testimony of Christians against Jews shall not be valid unless there is among these Christians some Jew who is there for the purpose of offering testimony.” He also criticized them for holding to falsehoods but said they cannot be abused. As he noted, “Jews prefer to persist in their stubbornness rather than to recognize the words of their prophets and the mysteries of the Scriptures and thus arrive at a knowledge of the Christian faith and salvation,” but “no Christian shall stir up anything new against them, but that they should be maintained in that status and position in which they were in the time of our predecessors, from antiquity till now.” (source)
15. St. Bernardino of Siena, one of the great preachers of the Medieval period, preached equally against Jews, sodomites, and usurers, noting the link between all three. Indeed, this pattern is even visible today, noting the disproportionate representation of Jews in banking and thus usury, as well as the tremendous amount of homosexuality among Jews, so much that Israel is one of the most sodomite-friendly nations in the world.
16. St. Bernard Clairvaux, one of the great preachers of the Crusaders and evangelists of Church history, said that the Jews have already been punished by their exile, and that Christians are not to unjustly abuse them for being Jews or out of hatred, but will eventually be converted by the grace of God. This is even noted in the Jewish Encyclopedia.
17. Bl Juliana of Norwich, in her Revelations of Divine Love, says that in a vision of the Passion, she saw that those who rejected Christ were condemned, including the Jews.
"For I had sight of the Passion of Christ in diverse Shewings–the First, the Second, the Fifth, and the Eighth, wherein I had in part a feeling of the sorrow of our Lady, and of His true friends that saw Him in pain; but I saw not so properly specified the Jews that did Him to death. Notwithstanding I knew in my Faith that they were accursed and condemned without end, saving those that converted by grace."(source)
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SUMMA THEOLOGIAE: Christ's doctrine (Tertia Pars, Q. 42)
Should Christ have preached to the Jews only, or to the Gentiles also? In preaching, should He have avoided the opposition of the Jews? Should He have preached in an open or in a hidden manner? Should He have preached by word only, or also by writing?
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St. Thomas Aquinas on the Relationship between Christianity and Judaism after Christ 1. Christianity is the continuity (fulfilment) of the faith of the Judaism of the Old Covenant. As regards the substance of the articles of faith, they have not received…
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Present-Day Judaism is not Old Testament Judaism
David Goldstein
"Romano Amerio, one of the greatest Catholic theologians of the last century argued that contemporary Jews do not worship the same God as the Christians. Chief Rabbi Sirat of France echoed his view, stating " One cannot, without abusing language, talk about Judeo-Christian religion. You are either a Jew or a Christian." a clue to their thinking might be found in this explanation by a 20th century convert, as to why..."
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Present-Day Judaism is not Old Testament Judaism
David Goldstein
"Romano Amerio, one of the greatest Catholic theologians of the last century argued that contemporary Jews do not worship the same God as the Christians. Chief Rabbi Sirat of France echoed his view, stating " One cannot, without abusing language, talk about Judeo-Christian religion. You are either a Jew or a Christian." a clue to their thinking might be found in this explanation by a 20th century convert, as to why..."
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