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| | Christians and Jewish people - 1 |
 | | The first christian communities spread anywhere, first of all among Jewish people, grouped in Jerusalem around the "pillars" of the "circoncision Church": James, Peter and John, lightly disliking "the Hellenists" (Acts,6,1), and in particular way for Paul, accused of lack of orthodoxy because of his "universalism". |
 | | Certainly the Fathers of the Church did not feel any racial hate against Jewish, and their intent was to preserve christians faith from Judaism contamination (usage sing and custom connected to Mosaic law), but they let them be transpoted by excessive and sometimes violent controversies. |
 | | For Cassiodoro the Jewish people (which he often calls "wicked", "without intelligence", "hardened sinners") have lost their own identity not only religiously but also politically, as the appellation "Jewish" has been correctly saddled just to "believers" that is to christians, and their land's right now belongs to Christ's Church, "the real Judea". |
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