Israel between the Two Cities: Augustine's Theology of the Jews and Judaism

• Autores: Gregory W. Lee
• Localización: Journal of early Christian studies: Journal of the North American Patristic Society, ISSN 1067-6341, Nº. 4, 2016, págs. 523-551
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • [...]any Israelites who adhere to Christ and persevere in him will never be together with those Israelites who persist as his enemies to the end of this life; rather, they will remain forever divided by the division that is foretold here. "60 As Augustine reads Ps 59.11, "Do not kill them, lest they some day forget your Law; scatter them in your power,"61 God has preserved the Jews in their Jewish identity for the church's sake: [...]the reason why God did not kill them-that is, the reason why he did not put an end to their being as Jews, despite the fact that they were conquered and oppressed by the Romans-is precisely so that they would not forget the law of God and, as a result, be unable to bear the testimony that we are discussing here . . Ciu. 17.16 (CCL 48:582; Babcock, 268): "Iste, inquam, populus additus ueris et carne et fide Israelitis ciuitas est Dei, quae ipsum quoque secundum carnem peperit Christum, quando in solis illis Israelitis fuit." [...]Augustine writes that God's wrath increased until "uniuersa gens a Chaldaeis debellantibus non solum subuerteretur in sedibus suis, sed etiam ex maxima sui parte transferretur in terras Assyriorum" (CCL 48:591; Babcock, 277). [...]any Christian of the present time, even though formerly a Jew, who wants to observe them in like manner, as if disturbing ashes already at rest, will not be devoutly accompanying or carrying the body, but wickedly violating its burial" (CSEL 34/2:367).