Jews have God\u2019s promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.<\/p>\n
Karl Barth<\/i><\/p>\n
I think myself that the shocking reply to the Syrophonician woman (it came alright in the end) is to remind all us Gentile Christians \u2013 who forget it easily enough and even flirt with anti-Semitism \u2013 that the Hebrews are spiritually senior to us, that God did entrust the descendants of Abraham with the first revelation of Himself.<\/p>\n
C.S. Lewis<\/i><\/p>\n
By the death of Christ, \u201cthe middle wall of partition \u2026 the law of the commandments contained in the ordinances\u201d \u2013 which was at the same time a token of the enmity between God and sinners, and an occasion of distance and alienation between Jews and Gentiles \u2013 was abolished; and believing Jews and Gentiles were reconciled to God and united into one body.<\/p>\n
Thomas M\u2019Crie<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jews have God\u2019s promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree. Karl Barth I think myself that the shocking reply to the Syrophonician woman (it came alright in the end) is to … Continue reading “JEWS
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