Augustine

Saint Augustine of Hippo was a bishop of Hippo and Church Father in the fourth and fifth centuries. He claimed that the Jews were condemned by God to act as slaves who “carry their masters' books. The slaves gain nothing by their carrying; but the masters profit by their reading.”

Quotes

 * “... It is a great confirmation of our faith that such important testimony is borne by enemies [the Jews]. The believing Gentiles cannot suppose these testimonies to Christ to be recent forgeries; for they find them in [Jewish] books held sacred for so many ages by those who crucified Christ, and still regarded with the highest veneration by those who every day blaspheme Christ. ...”, Augustine, Expositions on the Psalms.


 * “... not by bodily death, shall the ungodly race of carnal Jews perish. ... to the end of the seven days of time, the continued preservation of the Jews will be a proof to believing Christians of the subjection merited by those who, in the pride of their kingdom, put the Lord to death. ... Only when a Jew comes over to Christ, is he is no longer Cain, ... Jews have been scattered throughout all nations as witnesses to their own sin and to our truth. ... by means of one enemy [the Jews] we confound another enemy [the pagans]. “Scatter them abroad, take away their strength. And bring them down 0 Lord.” ...”, Augustine, Reply to Faustus the Manichaean.


 * “The Jews held him [Jesus Christ]; the Jews insulted him; the Jews bound him; they crowned him with thorns, dishonored him by spitting upon him; they scourged him; they heaped abuse upon him; they hung him upon a tree; they pierced him with a lance.”, Augustine.


 * “The true image of the Hebrew is Judas Iscariot, who sells the Lord for silver. The Jews can never understand the scriptures, and forever bear the guilt of the death of Christ.”, Augustine.


 * “These people [the Jews] have also become vagabonds, since they crucified God and our Lord.”, Augustine.