{"id":16740,"date":"2020-04-06T07:57:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T14:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=16740"},"modified":"2020-04-06T07:57:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T14:57:47","slug":"the-de-judaizing-of-the-early-church-fathers-paves-the-way-for-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2020\/04\/06\/the-de-judaizing-of-the-early-church-fathers-paves-the-way-for-anti-semitism\/","title":{"rendered":"The De-Judaizing of the Early Church Fathers Paves the Way for Anti-Semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"698\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Church-Fathers-16959844-698x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Church-Fathers-16959844-698x1024.jpg 698w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Church-Fathers-16959844-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Church-Fathers-16959844-768x1127.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Church-Fathers-16959844.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>After the death of the last apostle, and as time went one, the early church fathers<\/strong> took on a more strident tone against the Jews and their beliefs including the law of Moses. Here are several examples of this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch (98-117A.D.) \u2013 <em>Epistle to the Magnesians<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cFor if we still live according to the Jewish law, and the circumcision of the flesh, we deny that we have received grace\u201d (chap 8).<\/p><p>\u201cLet us therefore no longer keep[ the Sabbath after the Jewish manner\u2026But let every one of you keep the Sabbath after a spiritual manner\u2026After the observance of the Sabbath, let every friend of Christ keep the Lord\u2019s Day as a festival, the resurrection-day, the queen and chief of all the days [of the week]\u201d (chap 9).<\/p><p>\u201cIt is absurd to speak of Jesus Christ with the tongue, and to cherish in the mind a Judaism which has now come to an end. For where there is Christianity there cannot be Judaism\u201d (chap 10).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus<\/em>, chap 4 (A.D. 130)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cBut as to their scrupulosity concerning meats, and their superstition as respects the Sabbath, and their boasting about circumcision,and their fancies about fasting and the new moons, which are utterly ridiculous and unworthy of notice\u201d (chap 4)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ignatius Bishop of Antioch (98\u2013117A.D.) \u2014 <em>Epistle to the Philadelphians<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cBut if any one preach the Jewish law unto you, listen not to him\u201d (chap 6).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ignatius Bishop of Antioch (98\u2013117A.D.) \u2014 <em>Epistle to the Philippians<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cIf anyone celebrates the Passover along with the Jews, or receives the emblems of their feast, he is a partaker of those that killed the Lord and his apostles\u201d (chap 14).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Justin Martyr \u2014 <em>Dialogue with Trypho<\/em> (Between 138A.D. and 161 A.D.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Justin claims that the Scriptures no longer belong to the Jews, but to the Christians, thus asserting anti-Semitic replacement theology (chap 29).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Historical Notes on Marcion of Sinope<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the writings of Marcion of Sinope (c. 85 \u2013 c. 160; e.g. <em>Antitheses <\/em>or <em>Contradictions<\/em>) have been lost, Tertullian\u2019s five books refuting Marcionism as recorded in <em>Antitheses<\/em> is our best source of information on Marcion\u2019s teachings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Overview of Marcion\u2019s Teachings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>Exploring the Christian Faith<\/em>, (by J. I. Packer et al; Nelson, 1992) in an article written by David Wright.\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marcion sharply contrasted Judaism and Christianity and he maintains that the god of grace was unknown until revealed in Yeshua. By contrast, the god of the Old Testament was a god of strict law and justice, or even of harsh and violent malice. Yeshua came to rescue humanity from the power of the Old Testament, inferior god who he called the <em>demiurge<\/em> \u2014 a term borrowed from the Greek dualistic philosophers. Marcion believed that only Paul really understood the Yeshua\u2019s new revelation of love and grace and that the other Jewish apostles were still under the corrupting influences of the Jewish law (p. 295).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>History of the Christian Church<\/em>, vol. 2 (by Philip Schaff, Hendrickson, 2002). Justin Martyr regarded Marcion as the most formidable heretic of his day (p. 484).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>A History of Christianity<\/em>, vol. 1 by Kenneth Scott Latourette; Prince Press, 2003). Marcion insisted that the church had obscured the gospel by seeking to combine it with Judaism. He maintained that the God of the Old Testament and of the Jews is an evil God. This is due in part to his assertion that the God of the Old Testament commanded bloody sacrifices to him, and was a God of battles, rejoiced in bloodshed and was vindictive. He taught that this God had given a stern and inflexible law for the governance of men, demanded obedience to the law and was rigourous in its enforcement. Marcion held that in contrast to the God of the Jews, there is a second God who revealed himself in Yeshua who was a God of love who sought, out of mercy, to rescue men from the evil Old Testament God. Yeshua, he taught, came from heaven to deliver men form the rule of the malevolent evil God of the Old Testament whom he called the Demiruge. All that the good God asks of men if they are to escape from the rule of the Demiurge is faith in response to his love. Men have been emancipated from the legalistic requirements of the Demiurge and of his creature, Judaism. Marcion believed that Paul understood the gospel and in Paul he saw a sharp distinction between law and grace being the unmerited favor of God, which Marcion passionately believed was the essence of the gospel (pp. 126\u2013127).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Justin Martyr (ca. A.D. 155) roundly denounced Marcion as a heretic, but not because of his anti-Torah stand, but because of his unorthodox Greek dualistic view of the godhead, and his denial of Yeshua\u2019s incarnation believing instead that Yeshua was a phantom (e.g. Justin Martyr in <em>The First Apology<\/em>, chaps 26, 58)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>From <em>Ante-Nicene Fathers,<\/em> vol 3 (Hendrickson, 1995); \u201cTertullian Against Marcion\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Book 1, chap 19 (p. 285), Marcion set the Old Testament (law) in opposition to the New Testament (gospel).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Book 1, chap 19 (p. 285), Tertullian maintains that the God of the law and the gospel are the same, even though Marcion taught they were different. Mainstream Christianity has blended these two concepts: the orthodox position of Tertullian and the heretical position of Marcion by saying that there is only one God, but that he changed his demeanor from that of law to grace.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Book 1, chap 20 (pp. 285\u2013286), Marcion champions Paul as the one to have moved the other apostles away from the Jewish law (i.e. physical circumcision, the Sabbath and feasts) and into the message of grace. Marcion cites the example of Paul\u2019s withstanding Peter\u2019s acquiescence to the Jews over the Gentiles in favor of the law:<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Paul\u2019s becoming all things to all men \u2014 to the Jews who are under the law, as a Jews, and to those who are without the law, as being without the law (a supposed indication of Paul\u2019s ambivalence to the law).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul\u2019s mention of the other gospel brought into church by false brethren (Gal 1:6\u20137; 2:14) is a reference to them bringing into the church the corrupting influence of teaching adherence to the Old Testament law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul\u2019s alleged stand against physical circumcision is another proof, according to Marcion, of Paul\u2019s disdain for the law.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, Paul\u2019s teaching against observing times, days, months and years (a supposed reference to the biblical feasts and other Jewish ceremonies) is assumed to be proof of their abrogation. Marcion saw proof of the laws abrogation in the Old Testament writings where YHVH says, \u201cBehold, I will do a new thing\u201d (Isa 43:19); \u201cI will make a new covenant\u2026\u201d (Jer 31:32); \u201c I will cause her all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts\u201d (Hos 2:11); \u201cThe new moons, and sabbath, the calling assemblies, I cannot away with; your holy days and fasts, and feast days, my soul hates\u201d (Isa 1:13\u201314). Interestingly, these same arguments plucked out the scriptures by Marcion the heretic in attempt to prove the abrogation of the law, are the same scriptures used by the mainstream church to this day in their attempt to invalidate observance of the biblical feasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Book 4, chap 7 (pp. 352\u2013353), Tertullian asserts that Yeshua neither detested the law nor came to destroy the law, but to fulfill it (as per Matt 5:17), in contradistinction to Marcion who claims that Yeshua came to abrogate or destroy the law. What Tertullian\u2019s view was with regard to obedience to the law I can\u2019t say, except that he didn\u2019t believe Yeshua was a destroyer, but rather an upholder of the law in that he took the Pharisees to task for their partial obedience to it in that they omitted the weightier matters of the law (4.27, p. 394). But in Tertullian\u2019s mind, he was not advocating a doctrinal view that nullified the law, while Marcion did. It seems that today\u2019s mainstream church has a blended view of Tertullian and Marcion in that, and I\u2019ve heard it myself a hundred times, they maintain that Yeshua didn\u2019t came to destroy the law, but to fulfill it, so that Christians wouldn\u2019t have to do it (or at least those parts of the law that men determine are no longer relevant to Christians, and, hence, can choose to ignore, i.e. disobey). Therefore, in the minds of some Christians, Yeshua\u2019s fulfilling the law now gives them license to violate certain aspect of the law (Marcion who was a strong proponent of the abrogation of the law would have agreed with this view) such as the sabbaths, feasts, physical circumcision and the dietary laws. Hence, we see that the mainstream church, <em>de facto<\/em>, holds, to one degree or another, to an antinomian viewpoints similar to that of Marcion.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Book 4, chap 33 (pp. 404), Tertullian maintains that Marcion taught that the law and prophets where until John (Luke 16:16) after which they ceased due to the new dispensation of the gospel. Tertullian then shows this teaching to be fallacious because of Yeshua\u2019s statement that as long as heaven and earth still exist, not one point of the law will cease (Matt 5:18), and because of Isaiah\u2019s assertion that the word of YHVH is forever (Isa 40:8). Yet, it is the lie of Marcion that the law and prophets were until John, after which the law was abrogated that many in the Christian church teach to this day. Here is another example of one of the heresies of Marcion that infiltrated the early church and has been passed on down to this day into mainstream Christianity. Elsewhere, Tertullian admits the truth of the abolition of the law and declares that the law and prophets were until John even as Marcion maintained (Book 5, chap 2, pp. 431\u2013432). In this same passage, Tertullian admits the \u201csuppression, \u201d \u201cabolition\u201d (his terms) or \u201cabrogation of the law and the establishment of the gospel\u201d believing it to be a fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy that \u201cthe ancient things should pass away\u201d (Isa 43:18\u201319; 65:17; ibid.).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tertullian places the law at odds with the message of grace when he advocates the idea that the gospel calls men from law to grace (Book 5, chap 2, p. 432). In an earlier book, Tertullian attempts to show that the concept of grace was throughout the Old Testament as evidence that Marcion\u2019s idea that the God of the Old Testament was one of law, wrath and judgment, while the God of the New Testament was one of grace and love thus supposedly proving that they were two separate gods. Now, in Book 5, Tertullian is taking the same position on this issue as Marcion. Perphaps this reflect a change of opinion within Tertullian\u2019s mind on this matter between his earlier and latter writings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tertullian affirms that he agrees with Marcion in that the law was abrogated, and that Book of Galatians supposedly proves this, and that the other apostles, under the leading the Holy Spirit in Acts 15, realized that the law (in reality, the apostles were referring to physical circumcision, not to Torah-obedience) was an unbearable yoke that should be set aside, and that the law should no longer be taught, which was in agreement with Paul\u2019s already held position. What Tertullian doesn\u2019t agree with is Marcion\u2019s position that the Yeshua and the God of the New Testament were two opposite and separate beings (Book 5, chap 2, p. 432).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tertullian definitively states that the law has been abolished quoting Col 2:16\u201317 as \u201cproof\u201d (Book 5, ch 19, p. 471).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Council of Nicea (A.D. 325)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Accomplishments<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Easter observance officially preempts Passover, and Easter\u2019s date established.<\/li><li>It paved the way for the establishment of the doctrine of the trinity to become official church doctrine.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Constantine\u2019s View of the Jews (from Eusebius\u2019 <em>Ecclesiastical History<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From a letter of Constantine to the bishops:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Jews are polluted wretches.<\/li><li>Let us have nothing in common with the most hostile rabble of the Jews.<\/li><li>Let us withdraw ourselves from that most odious fellowship.<\/li><li>Have no fellowship with the lies of the Jews.<\/li><li>The vilest of mankind.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Council of Laodicea (A.D. 363\u2013364)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Accomplishments<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Outlawing the keeping of the Jewish sabbath (Saturday) and encouraging rest on the Lord\u2019s Day (Sunday) (canon 29)<\/li><\/ul>\n<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemory\"><a href=\"javascript:\" onclick=\"Evernote.doClip({title: 'The De-Judaizing of the Early Church Fathers Paves the Way for Anti-Semitism',url: 'https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2020\/04\/06\/the-de-judaizing-of-the-early-church-fathers-paves-the-way-for-anti-semitism\/',contentID: 'post-16740',suggestTags: 'Antisemitism,Church Fathers,Constantine,Council of Nicea',providerName: 'Hoshana Rabbah Blog',styling: 'text' });return false\" class=\"evernoteSiteMemoryLink\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.evernote.com\/article-clipper.png\" \nclass=\"evernoteSiteMemoryButton\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t\t\t<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemoryClear\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the death of the last apostle, and as time went one, the early church fathers took on a more strident tone against the Jews and their beliefs including the law of Moses. 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