The sources of Adversus Judaeos

1. Isaiah Isaiah 3 authority 3 citations · 9 passages

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   Isaiah is named and quoted as prophetic authority across four paragraphs, extending and confirming the treatise's arguments.

   Therefore, just as the carnal sacrifices are understood to be rejected, of which Isaiah too speaks, saying:

2. Jeremiah Jeremiah 3 authority 3 citations · 4 passages

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   Jeremiah is explicitly named and quoted as the source of the new-covenant and spiritual-circumcision oracles.

   For just as the carnal circumcision, which was temporary, was instilled as a sign to a stubborn people, so the spiritual circumcision was given for salvation to an obedient people, the prophet Jeremiah saying:

3. Psalms David 3 authority 3 citations · 7 passages

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   The Psalms of David are explicitly named and quoted in two paragraphs as prophetic authority.

   whom all the nations have obeyed — that is, in whom all the nations have believed — whose preachers, the apostles, are shown in the psalms of David:

4. Daniel Daniel 2 authority 2 citations · 3 passages

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   The Book of Daniel is named and extensively quoted and calculated as the chronological authority for Christ's coming and Jerusalem's fall.

   Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord and to the house of the God of Jacob — not of Esau, the elder son, but of Jacob, the later, that is, of our people, whose mountain is Christ, cut out without the hands of those who hew, filling all the earth, as shown in Daniel.

5. Exodus Moses 2 authority 2 citations · 6 passages

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   The Exodus narrative and the Sabbath/circumcision precepts attributed to Moses are cited repeatedly as authoritative source material.

   For in this law given to Adam we recognize all the precepts contained which afterwards sprang up, given through Moses — that is:

6. Genesis Moses 1 authority · 1 extended 2 citations · 4 passages

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   Genesis narratives (Abraham, Rebecca, Adam, Noah, Melchizedek, Cain and Abel) are invoked repeatedly as authoritative source material for the argument.

   and indeed that from the beginning the earthly sacrifices were shown beforehand in Cain, the elder son, that is, of Israel, and the diverse sacrifices of the younger son Abel, that is, of our people, were demonstrated.

7. Zechariah Zechariah 2 authority 2 citations

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   Explicitly quoted and attributed to Zechariah.

   For, besides that it is known to all that the power of the East — its strength, that is — was wont to abound in gold and perfumes, it is certain that the divine Scriptures too establish gold as the power of the other nations.

8. Amos Amos 1 authority 1 citation

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   Explicitly quoted and attributed to Amos.

   For what happened in his passion, that midday grew dark, the prophet Amos announces, saying:

9. Deuteronomy Moses 1 authority 1 citation

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   Explicitly quoted and attributed by content to the law of Moses.

   Therefore he did not curse Christ to this passion, but made a distinction, that whoever had incurred the judgement of death for some offence and died hanged on a tree, he was cursed by God who was hanged on the tree for the merits of his offences.

10. Ezekiel Ezekiel 1 authority 1 citation

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    Explicitly quoted and attributed to Ezekiel throughout the paragraph.

    For Ezekiel too announces that, for these merits of yours, your disaster is to come — and not only in this age, which has already come to pass, but in the day of retribution, which will follow.

11. Joshua 1 authority 1 citation

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    The Jericho conquest narrative is explicitly recounted and attributed to the account of Joshua son of Nun.

    In short, so far is this solemnity from being celebrated in the cessation of the Sabbath — that is, of the seventh day — that Joshua son of Nun, at the time when he was warring down the city of Jericho, said that a command had been given him by God to charge the people that the priests should carry the ark of God's covenant around the circuit of the city for seven days, and that thus, when the cir …

12. Leviticus Moses 1 authority 1 citation

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    Leviticus is explicitly named as the text in which the priestly sacrificial law was written through Moses.

    In short, when through Moses the priestly law was being written down in Leviticus, we find it prescribed to the people of Israel that sacrifices should be offered to God in no other place than in the land of promise, which the Lord God was about to give to the people of Israel and to their brothers — so that, Israel having been brought in, the sacrifices and burnt offerings might be celebrated the …

13. Malachi Malachi 1 authority 1 citation

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    Malachi, named as 'the angel, one of the twelve prophets,' is explicitly quoted.

    Why, then, does the Spirit afterwards proclaim through the prophets that it would come to pass that in every place and in every land sacrifices should be offered to God — as through Malachi, the angel, one of the twelve prophets, he says:

14. the prophecy of Hosea Hosea 1 authority 1 citation

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    Hosea is named explicitly as the source of the resurrection oracle.

    According to the prophecy of Hosea, sent forth in this manner:

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adversus judaeos 9 sources

Apocalypse of John · assorted unattributed prophetic oracles · the Gospel · the Maccabees · the books of Kings · the divine Scriptures · the law of Moses · the prophecies of Daniel · the sacrifice of Isaac (Genesis narrative)