Israel and Humanity - Status of Gentiles vis-à-vis the Mosaic tradition
THIRD PART
THE LAW
CHAPTER ONE THE TWO ASPECTS OF THE UNIVERSAL LAW
MOSAISM AND NOACHISM
I.
Status of Gentiles vis-à-vis the Mosaic.
We saw in the second part of this book idea what Judaism is human, of human society and the law that governs the evolution and organization of humanity. Our task now is to explore this universal law in this great episode of the eternal revelation which is the Mosaic. The universal character of this unique law that we previously published that not only obscured the point of disappearing completely?
There is no doubt that if we stop at the historic form of the Mosaic revelation, it seems especially designed to Israel. But our findings extend beyond the outward appearances, they must consider the whole sphere that embraces the Mosaic, whatever is the topic he addresses. In other words, since there can be no question of a Jewish national God is sharing with other local deities and the sovereign sway, since some time that we fixed the final constitution, the belief in one God of all men has undoubtedly existed in Israel, and there was not so many Jews to divine laws, and special ethnic, but a single supreme and universal law, it is we ask whether the Mosaic revelation addressed obviously to Israel involves the abandonment, rejection of the Gentiles, if it reduces [1]
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As if in a state outside the law, in a word, if we find ourselves confronted with the worship of a nation, race, replacing the universal religion which existed before.
The texts, subsequent to the election of Israel, which we show God speaking and acting as the God of all mankind and ensuring the destiny of every people, are innumerable in the Scriptures and are already sufficient to refute such a supposition which contradicts the furthermore, the most essential characteristic of a single God. After a providential government so vigilant and so universal that manifests in so many ways until the time of the Mosaic revelation, a radical abandonment and also complete the entire human race from God to focus so exclusively a tiny nation, is a monstrous assumption improbable. The laws of Moses themselves, though, is by shape or by their spirit, they relate only to Israel, contain evidence so overwhelming kindness and divine providence towards Gentiles, it is impossible that those peoples who lived in the testimony of the Pentateuch, the object of the solicitude of God, have received from Him any law.
It remains then for the realization of the divine plan which, as we have seen, the unity of mankind, only two solutions of the problem: the subjugation of all peoples to the Mosaic law, or the existence of any law, or rather, a special aspect of the Act for the Gentiles. In the first case, the Mosaic Law, although given directly to Israel, is the only way left open hello to all men by means of affiliation to the Jewish community and acceptance of all the duties that it requires, then we are dealing with a seemingly universal religion, but the constitution itself would tend to the destroyed Jewish individuality that has no reason to exist other than as a priesthood of humanity. In the second hypothesis, the Gentiles are neither abandoned by God or compelled to flee, to accept the Mosaic Law, since there would be for them, according to Judaism itself, one aspect of the law special requirement, we certainly would get a truly universal religion, as it would embrace all humanity, while protecting the Jewish individualism, we would not an Israel where all other people are killed, but Israel for humanity , which is precisely consistent with the nature of people-priest. But [2] in this sense what is this law of the Gentile returning, according to the organization of Judaism in the providential?
This dual solution we must now examine.
