Chap. XLVIII.—Of the Disinheriting of the Jews, and the Adoption of the Gentiles.

Since, therefore, He sits at the right hand of God, about to tread down His enemies, who tortured Him, when He shall come to judge the world, it is evident that no hope remains to the Jews, unless, turning themselves to repentance, and being cleansed from the blood with which they polluted themselves, they shall begin to hope in Him whom they denied.1533    Negaverunt; others read “necaverunt,” killed.   Therefore Esdras thus speaks:1534    See Instit., iv. 18, p. 121, supra.   “This passover is our Saviour and our refuge. Consider and let it come into your heart, that we have to abase Him in a figure: and after these things we have hoped1535    Speravimus; others “sperabimus.”   in Him.”  

Now that the Jews were disinherited, because they rejected Christ, and that we, who are of the Gentiles, were adopted into their place, is proved by the Scriptures. Jeremiah1536    Jer. xii. 7, 8.   thus speaks: “I have forsaken mine house, I have given mine heritage into the hands of her enemies. Mine heritage is become unto me as a lion in the forest; it hath given forth its voice against me: therefore have I hated it.” Also Malachi:1537    Mal. i. 10, 11.   “I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord, neither will I accept an offering at your hand. For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down thereof, my name shall be great among the Gentiles.” Isaiah also thus speaks:1538    Isa. lxvi. 18.   “I come to gather all nations and tongues: and they shall come and see my glory.” The same says in another place,1539    Isa. xlii. 6, 7.   speaking in the person of the Father to the Son: “I the Lord have called Thee in righteousness, and will hold Thine hand, and will keep Thee, and give Thee for a covenant of my people, for a light of the Gentiles; to open the eyes of the blind, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house.”  

CAPUT XLVIII. (Div. Inst. lib. IV, cap. 20.) De Judaeorum exhaeredatione, et Gentilium adoptione.

Cum igitur ad dexteram Dei sedeat, calcaturus inimicos suos, qui eum cruciaverunt, quando ad judicandum orbem venerit, apparet nullam spem reliquam esse Judaeis, nisi conversi ad poenitentiam, et a sanguine quo se polluerunt, abluti, sperare in eum 1055D coeperint, quem negaverunt. Ideo sic dicit Hesdra: 1056A Hoc Pascha Salvator noster est, et refugium nostrum. Cogitate, et ascendat in cor vestrum, quoniam habemus humiliare eum in signo, et post haec speravimus in eum.

Exhaeredatos autem esse Judaeos, quia Christum reprobaverunt, et nos, qui sumus ex gentibus, in eorum locum adoptatos, Scripturis approbatur. Jeremias ita dicit: Dereliqui domum meam: dimisi hoereditatem meam in manus inimicorum ejus. Facta est haereditas mea mihi sicut leo in sylva: dedit ipsa super me vocem suam; idcirco odivi eam. Item Malachias: Non est mihi voluntas circa vos, dicit Dominus, et sacrificium acceptum non habebo ex manibus vestris, quia a solis ortu usque ad occasum clarificabitur nomen meum apud gentes. Esaias quoque sic: Venio colligere omnes gentes et linguas; et venient, et videbunt claritatem 1056B meam. Idem alio loco ex persona Patris ad Filium: Ego Dominus Deus vocavi te in justitiam, et tenebo manum tuam, et confirmabo te: dedi te in testamentum generis mei, in lucem gentium, aperire oculos caecorum, producere ex vinculis alligatos, et de domo carceris sedentes in tenebris.