Jews

This was a custom of the Jews, as also the frequent washing themselves after the bed.

But the seventh day, too, is held sacred not only by the Hebrews but by the Greeks, according to which the whole world of all things that are quickened and grow goes round.

Perhaps he divines this elect nature that reaches after knowledge — unless, supposing three natures, he is sketching three polities, as some have taken it, of the Jews the silver, of the Greeks the third, and of the Christians, in whom the royal gold, the Holy Spirit, has been mingled.

For even though Moses, somewhat later, seems the first to have dedicated the God of the world in the temple of his own writings, the birthdays of His recognition are not therefore to be reckoned from the Pentateuch — since the whole pen of Moses does not establish the knowledge of the Creator, but, beginning from the very origin, recounts that He is to be reckoned from Paradise and Adam, not from Egypt and Moses.

and by the same examples and in like arguments, that He willed to show His goodness in those in which He had sent severity before;

For if a god — and indeed a loftier one — laid low the summit of his majesty in so great a humility as even to subject himself to death, and the death of the cross, why do you not think that some littlenesses suited our God too, yet more tolerable than the Jewish contumelies and gibbets and sepulchres?

And in this manner maintaining civil society among the Jewish people:

The law of Moses too, for the sanction of capital punishments, gives reasons which operate no less with other nations, than with the Jewish people.

In Dolabella’s letter to the Ephesians, which is to be found in Josephus, we see that the Jews requested an exemption from military expeditions, because, in mingling with strangers, they could not conveniently have observed the rites of their own laws and would have been obliged to bear arms, and to make long marches on the Sabbaths.

Not only did he try pleas for small debts to which Jews were parties, but he enjoyed a jurisdiction over all petty offences committed within the precincts of the castle, analogous to that of the sheriff within the rest of the county.

Usury, denied by law to Christians, was carried on by Jews under disadvantages and risks.

During the minority no interest at all, it was provided, should accrue to Jew or other usurer;

It has as many enemies as it has strangers — and properly, out of rivalry, the Jews;

which no Hadrian, though he explored every curiosity, no Vespasian, though he conquered the Jews, no Pius, no truly good emperor ever pressed upon us.

They were once Hebrews, who are now Jews.

The Act facilitating the naturalisation of Jews was, in obedience to popular clamour, repealed in the next session after it had been passed.

Jews, after a long struggle, were admitted in 1844 to municipal offices, and in 1859 to a seat in Parliament.

that we be delivered from the absurd and wicked men who have so prevailed over the people that we now reflect nothing other than the events of the capture of the Jews.

And if it grieves you that such-and-such a man holds the house of prayer, while you worship the Master of heaven and earth in the open air, consider that the eleven disciples were shut up in the upper room, while those who crucified the Lord were fulfilling the Jewish worship in the renowned temple.

For the Lord too, taking pity on the much-groaning life of the Jews, was pleased that they should walk with unwetted feet, as upon dry land, in the Red Sea, having given them Moses as their guide.

It was customary with the Jews to swear by the life of God, as the Lord liveth:

The law by which they are punished, seems to be founded on that of the Jews, which says:

“Suffer us,” they said, “to adore our God in peace, and do not refuse us the liberty you grant to the Jews:

it is by no means clear that others, Jews for example (if indeed this be not the only practical case) had any right to our lady’s protection down to the end of the Middle Ages and even later;

But I rather think that, so far as the presence of Jews was winked at after the expulsion, the toleration was informal and precarious;

But it is by superstition that we are reckoned a third race, not by nation, so that there are Romans, Jews, and then Christians.

For the Jews have their feasts of the sabbaths, and the pure supper, and the Jewish rites of lamps, and fasts with unleavened bread, and prayers on the shore — things which surely are alien from your gods.

A new report has now been suggested about our god, and not so very recently a certain most abandoned fellow in this city — himself a deserter of his own religion, a Jew only by the loss of his skin, and indeed the more so after the bites of beasts, since he goes about daily to be shaken down over his whole body by those to whom he hires himself — set up a picture against us under this title:

Or was he perhaps speaking to angels, as the Jews interpret, because they too do not acknowledge the Son?

" This was believed by the disciples, this not believed by the Jews.

And being asked by the Jews whether he were the Christ — surely God's;

That the garments and sandals of the sons of Israel remained for those forty years unworn and unwasted;

"For star differs from star in glory" — and "earthly and heavenly bodies," the Jew, namely, and the Christian.

So the Jews, by hoping for earthly things only, lose the heavenly — ignorant both of the bread promised from heaven, and of the oil of divine anointing, and the wine of the spirit, the water of the soul made vigorous from the vine of Christ.

There provoked, as I suppose, the fact that the Pharisees, indignant, were muttering that the Lord admitted publicans and heathen sinners and shared food with them.

You will therefore grant pardon also to the idolater and to every apostate, because we find the very people too, so often guilty of these things, so often afterward restored.

" For the Jews are pronounced apostate sons — begotten indeed and raised on high, but who have not reckoned with the Lord, and who have forsaken the Lord, and provoked to anger the Holy One of Israel.

The Christians in certain parts of Russia have an idea that they are outwitted and injured by their Jew fellow-citizens.

Probably the code of law best known to us, owing to its adoption as the canvas on which European religion is painted, is the code of the Jewish theocracy.

” And in the reign of Anne, a similar remedy was provided to force Jews to provide a suitable maintenance for their Christian children.

He did not, in the same manner as the Jews, define beforehand the blood-relation, or the fellow-citizen, or the proselyte, or the one likewise circumcised, or the one using one and the same law;

Similarly, the rudimentary Testament which (as I am informed) the Rabbinical Jewish law provides for, has been attributed to contact with the Romans.

Again, the original institutions of the Jews having provided nowhere for the privileges of Testatorship, the later Rabbinical jurisprudence, which pretends to suply the casus omissi of the Mosaic law, allows the power of Testation to attach when all the kindred entitled under the Mosaic system to succeed have failed or are undiscoverable.

But the Christians trace their genealogy from the Lord Jesus Christ.

All know that the Jews were so strict, that they would not use means for defence of themselves and their country upon their Sabbath.

And the Lord said to me, son of man, you have seen what the elders of Israel do — each of them in the dark, each in a hidden chamber;

Let us challenge this prophecy of Isaiah and make a comparison, whether the name which Isaiah foretold, and his signs which he announced concerning him, fit that Christ who has now come.

About the outcome of his passion you plainly waver, denying that the passion of the cross was foretold of Christ, and arguing besides that it is not to be believed that God exposed his Son to that kind of death, since he himself said:

’ Did the Jews, then, ask John out of the Pythagorean opinion, ‘Are you Elias?

I know that the Scripture of Enoch, which has given this order to the angels, is not received by some, because it is not admitted into the Jewish chest either.

It was said to the Jewish people, who, when they had ill administered the account of the Lord committed to them, ought, out of the men of mammon (which we were), rather to provide friends for themselves than enemies, and to relieve us from the debts of sins, by which we were detained to God, if they would confer that on us by the Lord's account—so that, when grace should begin to fail from them, t …

Peter to the circumcision, Paul to the nations.

For to them belongs the whole discourse of this reproof, who had where to seek Christ.

" For although he seems to have praised that just man, because he took no part with the council and the assembly of the Jews in deliberating about slaying the Lord, yet the divine Scripture always extends itself broadly, wherever, according to the sense of the present matter, discipline too is fortified;