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| Chapter XVII.—The Jews sent persons through the whole earth to spread calumnies on Christians.
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Chapter XVII.—The Jews sent persons
through the whole earth to spread calumnies on Christians.
“For
other nations have not inflicted on us and on Christ this wrong to such
an extent as you have, who in very deed are the authors of the wicked
prejudice against the Just One, and us who hold by Him. For after that
you had crucified Him, the only blameless and righteous Man,—
through whose stripes those who approach the Father by Him are healed,
—when you knew that He had risen from the dead and ascended to
heaven, as the prophets foretold He would, you not only did not repent of
the wickedness which you had committed, but at that time you selected and
sent out from Jerusalem chosen men through all the land to tell that the
godless heresy of the Christians had sprung up, and to publish those
things which all they who knew us not speak against us. So that you are
the cause not only of your own unrighteousness, but in fact of that of
all other men. And Isaiah cries justly: ‘By reason of you, My name
is blasphemed among the Gentiles.’1986
And:
‘Woe unto their soul! because they have devised an evil device
against themselves, saying, Let us bind the righteous, for he is
distasteful to us. Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
Woe unto the wicked! evil shall be rendered to him according to the works
of his hands.’ And again, in other words:1987
‘Woe unto them that draw their iniquity as with a long
cord, and their transgressions as with the harness of a heifer’s
yoke: who say, Let his speed come near; and let the counsel of the Holy
One of Israel come, that we may know it. Woe unto them that call evil
good, and good evil; that put light for darkness, and darkness for light;
that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!’1988
Accordingly, you displayed great zeal in publishing throughout
all the land bitter and dark and unjust things against the only blameless
and righteous Light sent by God.
For He appeared distasteful to you when He cried among
you, ‘It is written, My house is the house of prayer; but ye have
made it a den of thieves!’1989
He
overthrew also the tables of the money-changers in the temple, and
exclaimed, ‘Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
because ye pay tithe of mint and rue, but do not observe the love of God
and justice. Ye whited sepulchres! appearing beautiful outward, but are
within full of dead men’s bones.’1990
And to the Scribes, ‘Woe unto you,
Scribes! for ye have the keys, and ye do not enter in yourselves, and
them that are entering in ye hinder; ye blind guides!’E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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