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Who Said It |
What They Said |
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Justin Martyr (A.D. 167) |
Was
one of the first to accuse the Jews of inciting to kill Christians |
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Origen
(AD 254) |
Accused the Jews
of plotting in their meetings to murder Christians; Originated Allegory
teaching eliminating the Jewish race from the promises of God and started
Replacement Theology. |
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Eusebius
(AD 300 |
Alleged that
Jews, each year at the holiday of Purim, engaged in ceremonial killing of
Christian children |
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St. Hilary of Poitiers
(AD 367) |
Said
that the Jews were a perverse people, forever accursed by God |
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St. Ephraem
(AD 373) |
Wrote
many of the early church hymns, some of which maligned Jews, even to the
point of calling Jewish synagogues "whorehouses." |
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St. John Chrysostom
(AD 344-407) |
Said that there could never be expiation for the Jews and that God had always
hated them. He said it was "incumbent" upon all Christians to hate the Jews;
they were assassins of Christ, and worshippers of the devil; In one of his
writings, Chrysostom wrote, 'their synagogues are worse than brothel...they
are a den of scoundrels and the repair of wild beasts...the temple of demons
devoted to idolatrous cults...the refuge of brigands and debauches, and the
cavern of devils.' |
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St. Cyril
(AD 444) |
Gave
the Jews within his jurisdiction the choice of conversion, exile or stoning. |
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St. Jerome
(AD 420), |
Translator
of the Latin Vulgate, "proved" that Jews are incapable of understanding the
Scriptures and said they should be severely persecuted until they confess
"the true faith." |
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St. Augustine
(AD 430) |
Said
the true image of the Jew was Judas Iscariot, forever guilty and ignorant
spiritually. St. Augustine decided that Jews, for their own good and the
good of society, must be relegated to the position of slaves |
|
St. Thomas Aquinas
(AD 1274) |
Who
demanded that the Jews be called to perpetual servitude. According to
Professor F.E. Talmage, St. Augustine believed that "because of their sin
against Christ, the Jews rightly deserved death. Yet, as with Cain who
murdered the "just Abel, they are not to die...for they are doomed to wander
the earth...the witnesses of their iniquity and of our truth' the living proof
of Christianity. |
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The Crusaders
(AD 1099) |
Herded
Jews into the Great Synagogue in Jerusalem. When they were securely inside
the locked doors, the synagogue was set on fire. And the misguided
Crusaders, with the lies of the perverted sermons fresh in their ears, sang
as they marched around the blaze, "Christ, we adore Thee." |
|
Martin Luther
(1544) |
Said the Jews
should not merely be slaved, but slaves of slaves, that they might not even
come into contact with Christians. In his "Schem Hamphoras," he said the Jews
were ritual murderers and poisoners of the wells. He called for all Talmuds
and synagogues to be destroyed. |
