Page 69 - The Track Of The Jew Through The Ages - Alfred Rosenberg

Alfred Rosenberg

107
listen first to a voice from the earliest Christianity; Justin writes:
"The Jews consider us as enemies and torment us wherever they
can. Indeed Bar Kokhba, 108 the initiator of the Jewish uprising in
the Jewish war that just ended not long ago, allowed Christians
alone to be dragged to frightful tortures if they did not wish to deny
and blashpheme Christ".
"The high priests of your people have caused the name of
Jesus to be desecrated and reviled throughout the world" 109 "You
110
curse in your synagogues those who believe in Christ". "As far
as it is in your power, every Christian is driven out not only from
his property but in general from the world; you do not allow any
111
Christ to live". "Instead of feeling regret for that, that you have
killed Christ, you hate us who believe through him in God and the
Father of all things and kill us as often as you have the possibility,
and constantly curse Christ and his followers, while all of us pray
112
for you as for all men in general".
At that time the Jews succeeded in tormenting Christians
freely and they were the most eager in goading the pagans to
persecute the Christians. But when the Catholic Church turned the
tables they played the part of the persecuted innocent.
This hostile relationship to Christ the Jews maintained with
the greatest conscientiousness, and the persecution formula was
uttered regularly from their pulpit in all countries for centuries.
When, in the 16 th century, the "Emperor of Persia", as a
great chronicle narrates, asked the rabbis living there about their
attitude to Christ, the latter said that Christians "were really
idolatrous people who worshipped, not god, but a crucified criminal
113
and fraud".
107 First Apology, 31. [Justin Martyr (A.D. 100-165) was an early Christian
apologist. His first apology, or philosophical commendation of Christianity, from
ca. A.D. 150, was addressed to the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius.]
1 08
[Simon bar Kokhba (d. 1 35) was the leader of an unsuccessful revolt against the
Roman rulers of Judaea.]
109
Ch.16.
110 ch.na
111
Ch.133.
" :
Schudt, Judische Merkwurdigkeiten, Vol.1, p. 28.
1,3
Tractate Sabbath, 116a.
46