An insight into the spirit of some of the fathers of the church:There seems to be a lot of self-proclaimed religious people that follow the letter of religion, but fail to understand its spirit. These people do a lot of harm to religion. In fact, they betray it. Each one giving his own interpretation of the texts makes the Truth an object of human subjectivity. In the Orthodox Christian view, one should only consider as valid the interpretations given by the Fathers of the Church (universally recognized as such, eg. St John Chrysostom)
St. John Chrysostom, the Patriarch of Constantinople (died 406 A.D.) says: "How dare Christians have the slightest intercourse with Jews! They are lustful, rapacious, greedy, perfidious bandits: pests of the universe! Their synagogue is a house of prostitution, the domicile of the devil, as is the soul of the Jew. As a matter of fact, Jews worship the devil; their religion is a disease, their synagogue a an abyss of perdition. The rejection and dispersion of the Jews was done by the wrath of God because of His absolute abandonment of the Jews. God HATES the Jews, and on Judgement Day will say with those who sympathize with them: "Depart from Me, for you have had intercourse with my murderers!" Flee, then, from their assemblies, fly from their houses, and hold their synagogue in hatred and aversion."
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