Historical voices

Obdurate, malignant, odious, and revolting as the lowest Jew appears to us, he is rarely demoralized.

Viewed in this light, the degradation of the Jewish race is alone a striking evidence of its excellence, for none but one of the great races could have survived the trials which it has endured.

This peculiarity, however, attends the Jews under the most unfavourable circumstances; the other degraded races wear out and disappear; the Jew remains, as determined, as expert, as persevering, as full of resource and resolution as ever.

The Jews have never been so degraded as the Greeks were throughout the Levant before the emancipation, and the degradation of the Greeks was produced by a period of persecution which, both in amount and suffering, cannot compare with that…

In this they obey the law which regulates the destiny of all persecuted races: the infamous is the business of the dishonoured; and as infamous pursuits are generally illegal pursuits, the persecuted race which has most ability will be…

Such a tenet would sully and impugn the doctrine that is the corner-stone of our faith and hope.

Could that be a crime which secured for all mankind eternal joy--which vanquished Satan, and opened the gates of Paradise?

The immolators were preordained like the victim, and the holy race supplied both.

But the human mind cannot contemplate the idea that the most important deed of time could depend upon human will.

If the Jews had not prevailed upon the Romans to crucify our Lord, what would have become of the Atonement?

The doctrine embraces all space and time--nay, chaos and eternity; Divine persons are the agents, and the redemption of the whole family of man the result.

Born from the chosen house of the chosen people, yet blending in his inexplicable nature the Divine essence with the human elements, a sacrificial Mediator was to appear, appointed before all time, to purify with his atoning blood the…

It was for something deeper than this, higher and holier than even Moses could fulfil, that angels announced the Coming.

There cannot be two moralities; and to hold that the Second Person of the Holy Trinity could teach a different morality from that which had been already revealed by the First Person of the Holy Trinity, is a dogma so full of terror that it…

It is not a principle of jurisprudence, human or inspired, to permit the criminal to ordain his own punishment.

The belief that the present condition of the Jewish race is a penal infliction for the part which some Jews took at the crucifixion is not dogmatically sound.

Such a conclusion would impugn the foundations of all faith.

And that greater church, great even amid its terrible corruptions, that has avenged the victory of Titus by subjugating the capital of the Caesars, and has changed every one of the Olympian temples into altars of the God of Sinai and of…

And when the time was ripe to diffuse the truth among the ethnics, it was not a senator of Rome or a philosopher of Athens who was personally appointed by our Lord for that office, but a Jew of Tarsus, who founded the seven churches of…

No one has ever been permitted to write under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, except a Jew.

The first preachers of the gospel were Jews, and none else; the historians of the gospel were Jews, and none else.

Had it not been for the Jews of Palestine, the good tidings of our Lord would have been unknown for ever to the northern and western races.

Let us endeavour to penetrate this social anomaly that has harassed and perplexed centuries.

Yet they treat that race as the vilest of generations; and instead of logically looking upon them as the human family that has contributed most to human happiness, they extend to them every term of obloquy and every form of persecution.