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SH Introductory Note: “… blindness in part has happened in Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles should come in…as touching the election, they are most dear for the sake of the fathers.”
The 1566 Catechism of the Council of Trent states: “This guilt [for the death of Christ] seems more enormous in us than in the Jews, since according to the testimony of the same Apostle: ‘If they had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory’; while we, on the contrary, professing to know Him, yet denying Him by our actions, seem in some sort to lay violent hands on him.” — Art. IV. Second Part.
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I love Israel. I love Israel because His sacred feet walked there. There, where He proclaimed the Good News and Glad Tidings of the Father’s love for all mankind. It was there He forgave sins, healed the sick, overturned the tables of the moneychangers, and raised Lazarus from the dead. I love the miraculous state of Israel because to this day it protects the Christian holy sites, a task I would never want Muslims to assume. Israel and Christians are forever joined in salvation history even though, for the time being, a blindness given by God prevents them from fully understanding.
“according to the testimony of the same Apostle [Paul]: ‘If they had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory“.
Above all it was there in the Holy City, over which He wept, that He, the Suffering Servant, “was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not…
“… he was wounded for our transgressions,
he was bruised for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that made us whole,and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep had gone astray;
we turned every one to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
“God hath not cast away his people, which he foreknew,” even if “As it is written: God hath given them the spirit of insensibility; eyes that they should not see; and ears that they should not hear, until this present day…
“For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, (lest you should be wise in your own conceits), that blindness in part has happened in Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles should come in. 26 And so all Israel should be saved, as it is written: There shall come out of Sion, he that shall deliver, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob…
“And this is to them my covenant: when I shall take away their sins.
28 As concerning the gospel, indeed, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are most dear for the sake of the fathers.
29 For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.
30 For as you also in times past did not believe God, but now have obtained mercy, through their unbelief;
31 So these also now have not believed, for your mercy, that they also may obtain mercy.
32 For God hath concluded all in unbelief, that he may have mercy on all.” SH.
New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 183
James Lindsay: “The people of Israel live. Am Yisrael Chai. In this moving episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay talks about his recent (first ever) trip to Israel and what he learned most. Join him for a powerful story.
( Isaiah 53, Romans 11)
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