SULPICIUS SEVERUS, 4th. century…He contended that the Jews suffer dispersion because of their rejection of Jesus Christ.
MAXIMINUS, circa.427… His treatise that the Jews are uncircumcised in heart and that God has rejected the, as He did Cain. Christians are represented by Abel, who was slain because his worship pleased God.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO, 354-430….Among his writings he claimed that the Jews are guilty of deicide, carnality in worship and blind to the truth that salvation is received only through the grace of God. Judaism is corrupt, and Israel, as the older son, has been replaced in God’s dealings by the Christian church, which is His younger son. The Jews now live under a divine curse, but they are to be preserved as the “slave librarian” of the church. The Jews exist, not for their own sake, but for the salvation of that nation. They remain as enemies of God and will be punished by a future of wandering servitude among the nations. Even so, the Jewish people are to be protected as a witness to the truth of Christianity and the scriptures. The Old Testament properly belongs to the wholr church, and the men of faith in the Old Testament are members of the church. Although the Jews are to be kept in subjection socially, they are to be loved spiritually because their defection from the truth of the gospel has allowed the Gentiles to be grafted into the olive tree of God’s kingdom. The Jews will be grafted back into the olive tree at the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
PRUDENTIUS, 4th.century…He saw the Jews as an enslaved and subdued people, who will always suffer because of the murder of their Messiah.
ISIDORE OF SEVILLE, 570- 636…In his “Contra Judaeos” he argued that many Jews would not believe and would be supplanted by the Gentiles, that Jerusalem and the temple site would be abandoned. He asserted that Jewish rituals would cease to be practised. The covenant of the law they did not understand, but the new covenant calls both Jews and Gentiles to faith in Jesus Christ.
THE TEACHING OF JACOB, 634…This argued that the law had passed away, and that the rituals of the Jews had ceased because of their transgressions. The church has now replaced Israel in God’s purposes.
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