The Expositor, Vol. 12 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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I wish to emphasise this point strongly, as it is one Of' supreme importance. What afterwards emerged as Rabbini cal Judaism, and gathered and concentrated into itself the forces of Jewry, was only one among other elements in the Judaism of the first century a.d. This wider and earlier J udaism - which Mr. J. H. A. Hart has aptly termed Catho lick Judaism - is, perhaps, well represented in the writings of Philo. This earlier Judaism had not yet banned the Greek language, nor the allegorical method of interpreting Scripture. It tolerated Greek translations of the Bible and a more or less Greek liturgy in the colonies of the Dis persion. It embraced within itself a great central body Of moderate conservatives, together with an extreme right and an extreme left wing. 'nor must it be forgotten that the Christian movement itself was during the first stage Of its career within the Jewish body - it was regarded as a Jewish sect - while in the second stage of its career it entered into the fruits Of the great Jewish missionary propa ganda Of the Dispersion.

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