Historisches Seminar der Universität Zürich, Wintersemester 2002/03
Kolloquium "Israel und Palästina (19.-Mitte 20. Jh.)"

 

"Restoration of the Jews"


…again shall the East beare dominion, and the West be in subiection

[…] Where Israel, Iudah, Tsion, Ierusalem, etc. are named in this argument, the Holy Ghost meaneth not the spirituall Israel, or Church of God collected of the Gentiles, no nor of the Iewes and Gentiles both (for each of these have their promises severally and apart) but Israel properly de-scended out of Iacobs loynes [= loins, Lenden]. […]
The same iudement is to be made of their returning to their land and ancient seates, the conquest of their foes, the fruitfulness of their soile, the glorious Church they shall erect in the land it selfe of Iudah, their bearing rule farre and neere. These and such like are not Allegories, setting forth in terrene similitudes or deliverance through Christ (whereof those were types and figures) but meant really and literally of the Iewes. It was not possible to devise more express or evident tearmes, then [=than] the Spirit of purpose vseth to cut off all such construction. Neither were Iosias or Cyrus more plainely named hundred of yeares before they were borne, then these things are plainely delivered for the confirming of that peoples faith. Wherefore wee need not be afraid to averre and mainteyne, that one day they shall come to Ierusalem againe, be Kings and chiefe Monarches of the earth, swaye and governe all, for the glory of Christ that shall shine among them. And that is it Lactantius [christlicher Autor aus dem 4. Jh.] faith, Lib. 7. Cap. 15. The Romane name (I will speake it, because it must one day be) shall bee taken from the earth, and the Empire shall returne to Asia, and again shall the East beare dominion, and the West be in subiection.

Henry Finch (1558–1625, engl. Rechtsgelehrter), The World's Resurrection or the Calling of the Jewes. A Present to Judah and the Children of Israel that Ioyned with Him, and to Ioseph (that valiant tribe of Ephraim) and all the House of israel that Ioyned with Him, London: Edward Griffin for William Bladen, 1621, zitiert in Culver 1995, S. 109.
 

Cowen, Jamie (Rabbi), The Untold Story. The Role of Christian Zionists in the Establishment of Modern-day Israel.


«The meaning of our text [Prophet Hesekiel] as opened up by the context is most evidently, if words mean anything, first, that there shall be a political restoration of the Jews to their own land and to their own nationality. And then, secondly, there is in the text and in the context a most plain declaration that there shall be a spiritual restoration - in fact a conversion - of the tribes of Israel.» Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-92), baptistischer Prediger in England, Predigt vom 16.6.1864 über The Restoration and the Conversion of the Jews.


Besprechung
von "Discourse on the Restoration of the Jews, Delivered at the Tabernacle", N. Y., Oct. 28, and Dec. 2, -1844, by M. M. Noah. New York, 1845, 8vo. pp. 55, in The Occident and American Jewish Advocate, März 1845.


Vgl. Matthew Henry's einflussreichen calvinistischen Bibelkommentar Exposition of the Old and New Testament, Chester, 1708-10, mit dem rekurrenten Thema der Restoration of the Jews.


 

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