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Friday, September 15, 1944

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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It Had to Come This Way!

By PIERRE VAN PAASSEN

Ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.
Matthew 10:22

(Reprinted from "The Protestant")

To be hated because of the
name of Jesus? How is that
possible? Some scholars consider
it not unlikely at all that "the
name of Jesus," which, as John
Newton's familiar old hymn has
it. "sounds so sweet in a be-
liever's ear," was totally un-
known to the very Man of Naza-
reth who has borne it through

the long centuries of history.
As the Latinized form of the
Hebrew Jeshuah it was almost
certainly little relished by a Pal-
estinian Jew who saw his coun-
try trodden underfoot by the
Latin-speaking Romans. I do not
see any Guillaume or Louis in
present-day France answering
happily to the name Wilhelm or

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preaching anti-Nazi sermons in
Trieste as early as 1933 . . .
When the Germans seized Rome
on Sept. 8 and 9 . . . I went to
the synagogue and preached
every day to warn the commun-
ity what was going to happen.
I told them to scatter, hide and
close all their businesses and
administrations. Until advised
differently, all public services in
temples were to be suspended."
But the Jews of Rome did not
heed Zolli's advice, preferring the
false sense of security caused by
the assurance of Ugo Foa, pres-
ident of the Jewish community.
"We have been here for more
than 2,000 years," Zolli went on,
"and it is difficult for us to
think of danger. The whole Ital-
ian population has been wonder-
ful to us. The Germans are an-
other matter. They put a price
of 300,000 lire on my head—a
poor bargain for the Nazis." He
then described how Partisan
members of Catholic families
gave him refuge and helped him
escape during the Nazi occupa-
tion. "The Germans made raid
after raid. Once they demanded
50 kilograms of gold. Another
time they fined us 2,500,500 lire.
Their chief act of looting was
to seize all the precious manu-
scripts and books in the library
of the Italian Rabbinical Col-
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Ludwig in the language of the the cause represented by Christ ferred above others for the very
detested conqueror. Nor does it in this world, the cause of the reason that they are Christians.
seem likely that the Master at- Kingdom of God, of that there In more and more American
tached such ominous significance seems very little evidence in our towns there are. signs up saying
to his own real Hebrew or Ara- day and generation. When we that non-Christ i ans had
on. Christians hold promi.
maic name of Jeshuah or Josh- think of men being hated for
uah that he foresaw it becoming Christ's sake, we are inclined to nent positions. State men and
a cause of hatred for his friends hark back to the far-off days of politicians who i i nvoke the name
and followers in the future. the persecutions under Nero, or of Christ are lauded for their
touching
There were plenty of Palestinian to the Lollards in England, the pi ety and a odseiisi(:c Nobody
gomoment
boys other than he named in Catholics under Henry VIII, the a h
s
tilikseair
on anybody's head be-
honor of the national hero whom Anabaptists in Germany, the
he or she is a professing
use
r
tradition links with that momen- Huguenots, the Albigenses, the ca hein
The official spokesmen
tous change in the career of the Waldensians, the Hussites and
nomadic Israelitic tribes when all the other sectarians and here- and champions of Jesus Christ
they left the desert behind and tics who were burned, beheaded, in our society may without let or
entered upon a settled life in the drowned, racked and quartered hindrance preach "the word" of
cities and vineyards of Canaan. in the ages of intolerance in the Christ. Nobody takes it into his
There was nothing odious, rep- long ago. We ourselves are no head to contradict them or chal-
rehensible or hateful about the longer intolerant. We are for lenge them, let alone hate them
for it. In fact the newspapers
name of Joshua, the successor of freedom of religion everywhere
.
it are full of reports of sermons
Moses, or anything likely to give and for everyone; in Russia,
Spain, in Peru, in Poland, are on Monday morning. The words
offense in days to come.
we
not? We can scarcely con• of Christ's most prominent min-
What then? We have neverthe-
ceive
of a Christian being hated isters are on the front page.
less Jesus' own words: "Ye shall
shut himself up
be hated of all men for my name's in our day. We cannot imagine Nobody needs to now with the
in a secret room
sake." Can it be that he referred a man's attachment to any door locked and barred, as our
to the name Christ which tradi- church, creed or theology turn- fathers were often compelled to
tion has also fastened upon him? ing him into an object for ridi-
do when they wanted to read
But Christ is a Greek word; and cule, contempt, opposition, divi-
Gospel. The whole churchly
Jesus knew no Greek. He would sion, hatred or persecution. Who the
Christian business has become
is
today
being
hated
for
the
spe-
not have understood that word,
highly respectable. Nobody hates
no more than he would have cific sake of being baptized or
it. Nobody has a word to say
understood the word Christian. confirmed, for making a confes-
it. And this is rather
In his day there were no Chris- sion of faith in the doctrines of against
surprising too, for Jesus inti-
tians, at least there were no a church? Can you name anyone
mated more than once, and in
persons officially or unofficially in the whole world?
Isn't it rather the other way no uncertain terms, that his
designated by that appellation.
In his day there were only disci- around? Aren't Christians very name and his cause would be a
re-
ples, pupils, friends, fellow-tray-
ellers, fellow - Godseekers who much
in honor?
Aren't
they pre-
re- See VAN PAASSEN—Page 12
spected?
They are
indeed
walked around with the Master,
as one sees till this day in the
cities of the East disciples and
Le Shono Tovo Tikosevu—A Happy New Year!
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