“We have found the Messiah!”
John 1:41
“For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?”
John 5:46,47
“But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.”
2 Cor. 3:14
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Jewish Commentaries on the Bible
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Order of Contents
Book
Testimony of Jews Converted to Christianity
Is Jesus the Messiah: Chronology
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Book
Gaussen, Louis – Geneva & Jerusalem: the Gospel at Length Preached to the Jews 1844 66 pp.
Gaussen was a Swiss Christian pastor.
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Testimony of Jews Converted to Christianity
1700’s
Marcus, Moses – The Principal Motives & Circumstances that induced Moses Marcus to Leave the Jewish, & Embrace the Christian Faith: with a Short Account of his Sufferings Thereupon 1724
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Is Jesus the Messiah?
Chronology
The traditional Jewish chronological reckoning, which the modern nation of Israel still uses, accounts the creation of the world to be 3,761 BC, in contrast to Ussher’s 4,004 BC. Why the difference?
The bulk of the difference lies in that the main Jewish document that this is based on (the Seder Olam, c. 160 AD, which is below) cuts off 164 years (contrary to accepted secular history) from the Persian period between the 500’s and 300’s BC. This otherwise inexplicable anomaly more than likely happened, as Floyd Jones shows in detail below, due to the Jews’ fudging Daniel’s prophecy of 70 weeks (490 years) till the Messiah so that it would not fit with the coming of Jesus, but with the failed messianic rebellion of Bar Kokhba in 132 AD.
Jones, Floyd Nolan – ‘The Seder Olam Rabbah-Why Jewish Dating is Different’ being pp. 42-46 of this document.
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Latin
1600’s
Hoornbeek, Johanne – For the Convincing & Converting of the Jews, in Eight Books (Leiden, 1655) 578 pp. Index There is no table of contents.
Witsius, Herman – The Jew Christianizing Around the Principles of Faith & the Most Holy Trinity (Leiden, n.d.) ToC
The Prolegomena is subtitled: “in which is it inquired what it is to Judaize and who in this world are able to be said to be Judaizing?”
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“For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery… that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved…”
Rom. 11:25,26
“That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: Who are Israelites…”
Rom. 9:2-4
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