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| Chapter CXXXVII.—He exhorts the Jews to be converted.
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“Say no evil thing,
my brothers, against Him that was crucified, and treat not scornfully the
stripes wherewith all may be healed, even as we are healed. For it will
be well if, persuaded by the Scriptures, you are circumcised from
hard-heartedness: not that circumcision which you have from the tenets
that are put into you; for that was given for a sign, and not for a work
of righteousness, as the Scriptures compel you [to admit]. Assent,
therefore, and pour no ridicule on the Son of God; obey not the Pharisaic
teachers, and scoff not at the King of Israel, as the rulers of your
synagogues teach you to do after your prayers: for if he that touches
those who are not pleasing2476
to God, is
as one that touches the apple of God’s eye, how much more so is he
that touches His beloved! And that this is He, has been sufficiently
demonstrated.”
And as they kept silence, I continued: “My
friends, I now refer to the Scriptures as the Seventy have interpreted
them; for when I quoted them formerly as you possess them, I made proof
of you [to ascertain] how you were disposed.2477
| 2477 [Justin’s varied quotations of the
same text seem to have been of purpose. But consult Kaye’s most
useful note as to the text of the LXX., in answer to objections of
Wetstein, p. 20. ff.] | For, mentioning the Scripture which
says, ‘Woe unto them! for they have devised evil counsel against
themselves, saying’2478
(as the
Seventy have translated, I continued): ‘Let us take away the
righteous, for he is distasteful to us;’ whereas at the
commencement of the discussion I added what your version has: ‘Let
us bind the righteous, for he is distasteful to us.’ But you had
been busy about some other matter, and seem to have listened to the words
without attending to them. But now, since the day is drawing to a close,
for the sun is about to set, I shall add one remark to what I have said,
and conclude. I have indeed made the very same remark already, but I
think it would be right to bestow some consideration on it again.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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