The Church and the synagogue [microform]

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36 Not a Mere Compilation a Laborious an Original ask

ve of the Divine traditio preserve in the Synagogue Tothe writer the represent a far more arduous tas than the superficia observe might imagine Thei compilarion was effer at ne costi long an laborious research. Their classiseatio

th matters protracte study. Anci a sustained menta effortis involveti, o oni in the ringin to a focus the widely scattere rays o pure Jewish tradition, ut in the frequentpotnim out of the neu lighis, hi heu unnoticed whicli thev Casi seo manna potnt of Catholic doctrine Revelation aught Israel to belleve that the Messianiclight pervades ver page of the Bible even iis seemin ly most insignificant texis of that tesse light the Synagogue was the dispenser, up to the comin o Christ. Where fore cloesit appen, a We hallisee, that the pure oldmebre traditions procluce in the ou an indescribable emotion a peculia im- Pressior exclusivel their own. The transficthe heari illia e an pathos They thriti it through and through,ith theelectri touch of Jehova and with the per ona magnetis of the promise Messiah. Apropos o Holy rit It has eve been the ineradicatile aith and changetes traditio of the Synagogue, as at-tεste hy the converte Rabbi Drach Harmonie, Vol a P. 0I ,

Naat ivine Inspiratio extend to the ver mord of themoly Book. The sam author adcl that ver Je isti convertisees an unquestionable allusion to an endorsement of that veresam tradition in the solemn language of our Lord 'Ameri sariunto ou, ill heaven and earthias away one o or one

thesiclest, since it antedates Christianit hy many centuries, butit is the mos comprehensive and the mos satisfactor a Mil-hol cling, as 1 does that themoly Spirit meaches continuous-Ι to ali generation through hoth in matte and the forme, Holy rit, through both iis substance an iis style. hus, for example the Spirit of God Incarnate in is the author of the sermon o the Beatitudes, has Men pleased SuhsequeMis to dictate ora Matthew, an to S. Luke, in thei inspiredrepor of his sermon, disterent om o narrative and of α-

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ΑΝD PETER HIS FIRST SUCCESSOR.

omniscience.

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The Synagogue and the Dogmatic Basis

os the Incarnation, viz. the Trinity.

37J The Incarnation that ineffabi consoling, u prata abl ennobling, etfyin truth hic set the crow of the Dei trium the brow of humanity the Incarnation postulates the correlative truth of the Trinity, .e., nemo in three

hyposthase or person absolutet co terna an co-equat,

viz. the ather, the Son an themoly Gho'L It wil notae irrelevant, then, o recal here the antiquit of that heavenlydoctrine hic Was reveale firs to the Angeis, aftem clato the rst an an forme par of the primitive revelationano, subsequently be me integra par of the sacre depositintruste to Moses, to the prophela, and to the Synagogue. Let scio a moment glance at the deπ-roote satin of the ancient Synagogue in the strice adorabie Trinity. Ofthis historica iaci the almu itself the Gallies enem ofine Christia name, furnishes o man proos that e must, for brevity's sata, confine ourselvecto a mere fractionis themall.

commonseopleiad oeen, in a measure prepared by the coveri

teachin of the Synagogue, to belleve in amysteriousi triune God a belles eageri accepte in thos early clays by me Israelite et verse in the traditionalis divine interpretationo the Law of hic Me at o e procre to adduce a se

specimens.

38J, premis our quotations ho-ver, With in remine that the reade Wil find themebre. or rabbini diri of themati as Mellis a Frenta transla io of the fame, in a, eis immense meare an valuerimm the penis a mos illustrio

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converte rabbi, justi regar da his forme eo-religionisis and iustly honored by themoly Me, as a schola o prodigio learning namely the Choalier Drach, the author os Dei Harmoni mire 'Eglis et la Synagogue, and of many

other invaluable civis Ilis Harmonis, in in volumes noctavo, is trul a monumenta mastersime hic no scholarca presume to ignore.

o themol Spirit 'An the Spiritis God move ove the

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son An these three are but ne substance, ne rasence, ne

An Iehovali appeare to him manifestatio of the Divine Essenc unde the Three chie Splendors' Drach.

One of these Splendor or Person was God the Son, ca'led the Word of God the Ierusalemitic Paraphas says explicitiv: An the ordis Iehovis reveale Himself to hi in the Plat of the Vision Drach ibid. p. 45O . 43Jahe expression Bethmin tribunal), means in Rabbinie

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eouatit of the thise invine Person by givincto achii themacter of the ne God.

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I 6 Indred, e leam rom the Divine traditionis iste ancient Synagogue that by a cli insition orthy of the Infinite

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to e pronounce as ea in the phrase yea, eam naν, naν. Draclici Harmonie, Ol. 1. P. 473 . The prince of Catholi exegetes, S Jerome, recogniae theclivi ne meanin ensliri ne in the letters of the Tetragrammaton for both in his otii epist te ad Paulam an in hisbook De ominibus hebraicis, he writes of the is letter of the

Divine Name: ...'Iod principium aut Dominator' an evident allusion to the mystica o supernatura meaning of the same

poetic allusion to the Procession of themoly Spirit rom the Somas etllas rom the Father. ictine instanc sussice:

io the Fathe by the Frame from bove, horis the Celestial