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Jerome Mis-Identifies "Gentiles" As Esau

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Jerome Mis-Identifies "Gentiles" As Esau

Postby EzraLB » Mon Mar 28, 2016 8:54 am

Allegedly, it was Jerome (347 to 420AD) who first coined the term "gentiles" to describe the non-jewish, non-Israelite "nations" of Scripture. This error, of course, has plagued Christian understanding of the Scriptures for over 2,000 years. That Jerome apparently relied on jewish Old Testament "experts" during his translation work may partially explain the cause of this egregious error.

His convoluted insistence on this distinction forced him into misinterpreting the prophecies regarding Jacob and Esau. He maintains that Jacob/Israel were the jews, and that Esau and his descendants were the "Gentile" nations, essentially identifying the true Israelites as the seedline of satan!

From his text, "An Answer To The Jews," Jerome merely compounds his error [numbers refer to footnotes from text quoted]:

"[God] promised to Abraham that "in his seed should be blest all nations of the earth; "and that out of the womb of Rebecca "two peoples and two nations were about to proceed," --of course those of the Jews, that is, of Israel; and of the Gentiles, that is ours. [4] Each, then, was called a people and a nation; lest, from the nuncupative appellation, any should dare to claim for himself the privilege of grace. For God ordained "two peoples and two nations" as about to proceed out of the womb of one woman: nor did grace make distinction in the nuncupative appellation, but in the order of birth; to the effect that, which ever was to be prior in proceeding from the womb, should be subjected to "the less," that is, the posterior.

For thus unto Rebecca did God speak: "Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be divided from thy bowels; and people shall overcome people, and the greater shall serve the less."[5] Accordingly, since the people or nation of the Jews is anterior in time, and "greater" through the grace of primary favour in the Law, whereas ours is understood to be "less" in the age of times, as having in the last era of the world attained the knowledge of divine mercy: beyond doubt, through the edict of the divine utterance, the prior and "greater" people--that is, the Jewish--must necessarily serve the "less; "and the "less" people--that is, the Christian--overcome the "greater." [6] For, withal, according to the memorial records of the divine Scriptures, the people of the Jews--that is, the more ancient--quite forsook God, and did degrading service to idols, and, abandoning the Divinity, was surrendered to images; while "the people" said to Aaron, "Make us gods to go before us."And when the gold out of the necklaces of the women and the rings of the men had been wholly smelted by fire, and there had come forth a calf-like head, to this figment Israel with one consent (abandoning God) gave honour, saying, "These are the gods who brought us from the land of Egypt."[7]

For thus, in the later times in which kings were governing them, did they again, in conjunction with Jeroboam, worship golden kine, and groves, and enslave themselves to Baal. Whence is proved that they have ever been depicted, out of the volume of the divine Scriptures, as guilty of the crime of idolatry; whereas our "less"--that is, posterior--people, quitting the idols which formerly it used slavishly to serve, has been converted to the same God from whom Israel, as we have above related, had departed.[8] For thus has the "less"--that is, posterior--people overcome the"greater people," while it attains the grace of divine favour, from which Israel has been divorced."

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Re: Jerome Mis-Identifies "Gentiles" As Esau

Postby wmfinck » Tue Mar 29, 2016 9:07 am

Yahweh had basically told Israel that because they loved lies, they would have them. So they were literally buried under a pile of lies.

Jerome is in direct contradiction to the apostles and history. No surprise, since his learning came from the Jews of Alexandria, much like Clement and Origen were very much influenced.

Apparently, the Jews made the "stars" of that era as well.
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