“Judaism, since Christ, is a corruption; indeed Judas is the image of the Jewish people; their understanding of the Scriptures is carnal; they bear guilt for the death of the Saviour, for through their fathers they have killed the Christ.”
“The Jews held him; the Jews insulted him, the Jews bound him, they crowned him with thorns, dishonored him by spitting upon him, they scrouged him, they heaped abuses upon him, they hung him upon a tree, they pierced him with a lance.” ~ The Anguish of the Jews, Augustine of Hippo
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“Jesus and the Apostles were Jews; the Law of Sinai was from God; and if Israel has been replaced, Jews are still called to repentance and faith in Christ.”
“Thus, let us preach to the Jews, whenever we can, with a spirit of love… It is not for us to boast over them as brances broken off… We shall be able to say to them without exulting over them – though we exult in God – ‘Come, let us walk in the light of the Lord’.”
~ Treatise Against the Jews, Augustine
And realize this one pertinent, salient fact. St. Augustine wrote BEFORE Islam, BEFORE the Khazars, BEFORE the finalization of the Talmud. Since his time, we have a Turkic tribe known as the Khazars, a tribe related to the Huns, and the other barbarians from the East, convert to Talmudism, which is even MORE demonic than the ‘Traditions of the Elders’ which Augustine knew about in his day…
Secondly, Augustine did not know (as many STILL do not know) that the ‘Jews’ of Jesus’ day, and the Judeans of Jesus’ day, were NOT THE SAME PEOPLE. Due to the forced conversion of the entire people of Edom, or, as the Romans called the province, Idumea, a tribe which Holy Scripture says God hates ‘eternally’ became part of the Hebrew people, who were not ETHNICALLY related to the Chosen People. Jesus was NOT a ‘Jew’ as Benjamin Freedman ( a converted ‘Jew’ from the 1950′s) tried to tell us half a century ago. The “Jews” were ALL Idumeans/Edomites, and they TOOK OVER CONTROL of the Roman province of Judea, about 75 years B.C. It was THEY to whom Christ gave his sternest DENUNCIATIONS, and pointed out that THEY WERE OF THEIR FATHER, the Devil! [John 8:44]
Finally, in contrast to the REAL ‘Chosen People’ who were of the stock and race of Abraham, as was Christ, the Edomites (and their latter-day converts, the Khazars) were of NO ETHNIC or RACIAL connection to the REAL Chosen People, of whom Christ is our Living Icon.
http://thewhitechrist.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/of-what-race-are-abraham’s-seed-gal-329/
Christ’s denunciations of the Edomites, was the final confrontation of the ‘two nations are in your womb’ prophecy that Rachel was given in Genesis, between Jacob and Esau/Edom.
Good comments, Fr. John. I also enjoyed your article.
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