Theological Theses · §1956 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

The Jews' unbelief and the rejection of the Messiah foretold (Isaiah 53) and Christ's own predictions

In many places the prophets also foretold that the Jews would not believe in the time of the Messiah, and that this people would therefore be rejected. This is especially so in Isaiah 53: 'Who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?'

There the prophet foretells that their unbelief would go so far that they would despise their King, the Messiah, even wound him, remove him by a most cruel and shameful death, and count him among transgressors and criminals. And the Messiah himself, Jesus our Lord, while he lived on earth, foretold one by one all the crimes and outrages that the leaders of the Jewish nation would commit against him. He added that all this must happen so, and that everything written by the prophets about the Son of Man must be fulfilled in this way.

Latin

V. Similiter apud Prophetas multis in locis praedicta est incredulitas Judaeorum futura tempore Messiae, & propter eam istius populi futura quoque rejectio. Praesertim apud Isaiam capite quinquagesimo tertio. Quis credidit auditui nostro, & brachium Domini cui est revelatum? Et ibidem haec incredulitas tanta futura esse praedicitur, ut Regem suum Messiam despectui sint habituri, quin & vulneraturi, acerbissimaque & ignominiosissima morte e medio sublaturi, praevaricatoribusque & sceleratis adnumeraturi. Et Messias ipse Jesus Dominus noster, quum in terris versaretur, omnia ista quae primores gentis Judaicae in ipsum admissuri erant, scelera & flagitia sigillatim praedixit, addens oportere ista omnia sic fieri, & sic perficienda omnia quae scripta sunt per Prophetas de filio hominis.

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