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The Track of the Jew through the Ages

itself, and must also grant to them the right to combat
reinterpretations such as were always popular.
Now they have characterised the spirit of Christ on the basis
of their law, thus of their feeling and thought, as alien and hostile
with unmistakable clarity for almost two thousand years; that is
decisive, no matter what we wish to read into the Pentateuch and
the Prophets.
Here two types of soul stand against each other like fire
and water. That is why de Castro, one with all Jewry, sees in Christ
a "deceiver" . . "who has a fatal similarity with the serpent that
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seduced Eve in having instituted the same calamity in the world."
Christ frayed ears on the Sabbath, ate forbidden flesh, "it is
impossible to forgive anything that he said because God, foreseeing
that one day a man would emerge to seduce his people, had
commanded through his holy scripture to be on guard, and had
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prohibited to them all that Jesus Christ wished to introduce".
Hardly had he become known than Christ gave clear proofs of his
lack of respect towards the divine law, and only after an absolutely
precise and unbiased investigation which proved that his doctrine
and his morals contradicted the will of God was he sentenced to
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death".
From the mouths of all Jews we hear this declaration even
though the claim of a possible bridging of the gap still prevails. And
from the depths of his heart de Castro calls out: "The dependence in
which the Jews were living when the Christian religion began to be
introduced prevented them from destroying it to its roots". "If the
Jews did not stand under the yoke of the Romans, if they had had
power as in the times of David and Solomon, this idolatry would
have ended immediately after its beginning."
That is blunt enough, and the same way of thought comes
to the already mentioned Dr. Tippe when, in connection with the
narrative ofCain and Abel, he says: "The difference in the expression
of religious consciousness goes so far as to be a fratricide. What a
deep truth!"

Op. cit., p.9 1
[Ibid.], p. 180.

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