Page 50 - The Track Of The Jew Through The Ages - Alfred Rosenberg

The Track of the Jew through the Ages

Jehovah, whose influence was in ancient times restricted to
the territory of Canaan alone, gradually grew bigger and developed
in the imagination of the Jewish people into a godhead that became
increasingly more powerful. But that did not prevent him from being
worshipped in addition as a national god who is there to lead and
protect the people of Israel. The high walls that Nehemiah had built
around Jerusalem and which were to separate the Jews physically
from the heathens were the expression of the internal fundamental
separation and religious intolerance. God is god, and we are his
people, that is the alpha and omega of the Jewish religion up to the
present day. "The Jew is the teacher of all intolerance, all religious
fanaticism, all murder for the sake ofreligion, he appeals to tolerance
only when he feels oppressed, but has never exercised it and,
according to his law, could not", says Chamberlain in his
Foundations of the 19 th century, of which book only later ages will
appreciate the service that it has done to the German people. These
words are entirely incontestable. Since the most ancient times, for
example, it was the Jews who persecuted the Christians where they
could and ordered the heathens to oppress the same; when Julian
the Apostate introduced again the heathen cult, the Jews in Syria
used the given opportunity to institute Christian persecutions with
doubled vigour.
When later the Jews in Cyprus had become numerous they
decided to slaughter all the other inhabitants. This memorable
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decision cost the lives of 240,000 non-Jews. Tertullian narrates
that in Carthage, at the time of the Christian persecutions, the Jews
enjoyed the pleasure of carrying around a painted image which
represented a man with donkey's ears and hooves, holding a book
in his hand and with the inscription: the god of the Christians.
What still lives in all our churches of the principle of "sole
salvation" is the remnant of the influence of the Pentateuch and the
prophet Ezekiel. A strong faith without bloody spitefulness is for
the Jew even today an impossibility (unfortunately also for many
68 Mommsen, Romische Geschichte. [Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) was a
German historian whose history of Rome was first published in three volumes in
1854-1856. Mommsen's work was rewarded with a Nobel Prize in Literature in
1902.]
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