David Baron

Name: The Ancient Scriptures and the Modern Jew — Chapter 5
Author: David Baron

The Ancient Scriptures and the Modern Jew… (1901)

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“The Ancient Scriptures and the Modern Jew — Chapter 5”, published in 1901, is a work by David Baron. It explores elements such as Jewish, Jews and Jesus.

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David Baron, The Ancient Scriptures and the Modern Jew… (1901)

“ Peter will remain the only Jew who has said of the Son of David, ' I know not the man.' If the Jews up to the present time have not publicly rendered homage to the sublime moral beauty of the figure of Jesus, it is because their tormentors have always persecuted, tortured, assassinated them in His name. The Jews have drawn their conclusions from the disciples as to the Master which was wrong a wrong pardonable in the eternal victims of the implacably cruel hatred of those who called themselves Christians. ”

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David Baron, The Ancient Scriptures and the Modern Jew… (1901)

“ ONE of the first questions which arise in our minds, after a bird's-eye view of the nation as a whole is presented to us, is, " What attitude do these different sections assume to Christianity?" I say to " Christianity " ; and looking over its history in relation to the Jews, one becomes painfully impressed with the fact that the term " Christianity " must be distinguished from Christ and the gospel.
It may sound like exaggeration in the ears of Christians in England and America, when I say that millions of Jews are as ignorant of Christ as are the unevangelised tribes in Central Africa ”

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David Baron, The Ancient Scriptures and the Modern Jew… (1901)

“ Perhaps the most illustrious exponent of Jewish law and procedure is Moses Maimonides, and he, far from repudiating, speaks of Christ and His death as historic facts, and adds that the Jews, by handing Jesus over to be crucified, "have done to Him as He deserved." ”

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David Baron, The Ancient Scriptures and the Modern Jew… (1901)

“ IN RELATION TO CHRISTIANITY 203
Jewish ideas on the relation of man to his Creator. The Sermon on the Mount is the quintessence of Rabbinical ethics, and is adorned with images and comparisons familiar to the Rabbis. Jesus is soul of our soul, as He is flesh of our flesh. ”

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David Baron, The Ancient Scriptures and the Modern Jew… (1901)

“ The Christian standing on the impregnable rock of New Testament truth, against which even the gates of hell shall never prevail, can well afford to smile at such vain, empty boasting ; but I refer to it simply to show the spirit of this type of rationalistic Judaism, which is in a measure responsible for provoking unenlightened Christians in Germany and other lands to join in the anti-Semitic agitation a movement altogether opposed to the spirit of Christ, and fraught with many dangers to Christendom itself. ”

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David Baron, The Ancient Scriptures and the Modern Jew… (1901)

“ If the Jews had condemned Jesus in the conditions in which the trial was accom- plished according to tradition, they would have com- mitted a series of crimes each of which exposed itself to the severest punishment according to the Jewish law. Therefore, it is certain that all the story of the trial of Jesus is only a vengeance of those who wished to punish the Jews for not having recognised the Divine mission of Christ. ”

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David Baron, The Ancient Scriptures and the Modern Jew… (1901)

“ He teaches the moral of Hillel, ' Love thy neighbour as thyself.' He is constantly preoccupied with eternal things ; He feels Himself in spiritual com- munication with God. He has contempt for what is mortal in Himself, and for all the ephemeral con- tingencies of eternal life. The same traits characterised the best Jews at the time of the Roman Conquest, and more particularly the Essenes, whose religious life was so intense. Like His origin, like His moral physiog- nomy, the language of Jesus is absolutely Jewish. ”

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David Baron, The Ancient Scriptures and the Modern Jew… (1901)

“ Hence it is that though un- consciously they have been permeated with Western ideas, and cannot but see and feel that the coming of Christ has wonderfully affected the history of the world, speaking generally, the tendency of this class is towards rationalism and negation, and, from a gospel point of view, they are less hopeful than even the most bigoted of their orthodox brethren, who still tenaciously cling to the hope of Israel. ”

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