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November 18th, 2015 | #1 |
The Epitome of Evil
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Saint Macarius of Egypt on the Jews
Saint Macarius of Egypt on the Jews Saint Macarius of Egypt, a Christian mystic and one of the fourth century Desert Fathers of the Church, is a significant figure in the Christian Orthodox tradition and a lesser, if still significant, figure in the Roman Catholic Church. As such what he has to say on the subject of jews and Judaism from an early Christian perspective is of particular interest to Christians today who feel called, for what reason I know not, to worship the very ground on which jews, and more specifically Israelis, walk on. Whether the 'Fifty Homilies' ascribed to Macarius after his death are actually his own work is next to impossible to ascertain, but while we aren't absolute sure of their authorship. It is generally accepted that, at the very least, the 'Fifty Homilies' were written around the time Macarius lived and have been accepted as his work by both the Orthodox and Roman Catholic traditions of Christianity. Macarius tells us in his 15th Homily that it was the jews, and not mark you the Romans, who persecuted Jesus. In the 28th Homily he confirms that the jews were, and are, directly responsible for the death of Jesus on the cross (i.e. they are guilty of deicide). This atrocity committed by the jews is held by Macarius, in the same homily, to be the reason that God has turned away from the jewish people and has instead rewarded the gentiles with the fruits of the earth and miscellaneous blessings. The Saint further explains, in his 47th Homily, the succession of the status of the 'holy people' away from the 'baptism of the flesh' (i.e. circumcision = jews) to the 'baptism of the spirit' (i.e. baptism as the circumcision of the spirit = Christians), which means that jews and Judaism have gone from being a holy nation to a distinctly unholy one. Macarius happily tells us, in his 15th and 17th Homilies, that since the jews murdered Jesus knowing he was the long-awaiting Messiah. They have never been persecuted and instead have been the ones who done the merciless persecuting (of Christians in particular). He also states that the jews as a people worship 'false idols' (presumably a reference to their fetish for the letter, rather than the spirit, of the Written Torah as evidenced in the Mishnah and Gemara of the Palestinian and Babylonian academies) in his 17th Homily and further, in his 28th Homily, likens jews to the worst kind of evil smelling rubbish found in a filthy house. In other words Saint Macarius regarded jews as the font of all that was evil in the world as well as identifying them as the principle enemies, and persecutors, of both Jesus and his Christian followers. ------------------------------------------- This was originally published at the following address: http://www.semiticcontroversies.blog...t-on-jews.html
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November 21st, 2015 | #2 |
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You forget that Christianity is believed that:
"But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all." The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Colossians, Chapter 3, 8-11. |
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