Note 60 — Chapter VII · A.D. 363-429. JOVIAN TO HONORIUS.—MUTUAL JEALOUSIES AND OUTRAGES.—SUPPRESSION OF THE PATRIARCHATE OF TIBERIAS.

I have elsewhere pointed out how fearfully mistaken is such a belief. Granting, for the argument’s sake, that the Jews who crucified our Lord are to be regarded as His enemies, and, as such, just objects of our abhorrence, their genuine descendants, those who should inherit that abhorrence, are not their children according to the flesh, but they (St. John viii. 41, 44) who imitate their deeds. These are their genuine children. These ‘crucify the Son of God afresh.’ If we must abhor any as the enemies of Christ, let us abhor these.