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I RECOGNIZED that these people said these things, and THEN pointed out that they ALSO taught, ad not only taught, bit very CLEARLY taught.Does your HARD PROOF include the following?
Justin Martyr, Dialogues, Chapter CXXIII, 130 AD
"Christians are the True Israel"
Justin Martyr, Dialogues, Chapter CXXXV, 130 AD
"Christ is King of Israel, and Christians are the Israelitic Race.
Justin Martyr, Dialogues, Chapter CXXXV, 130 AD
"As, therefore, Christ is the Israel and the Jacob, even so we, who have been quarried out from the bowels of Christ, are the true Israelitic race."
Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Book 4, Chapter 8, Paragraph 1
"This, then, is a clear point, that those who disallow his salvation, and frame the idea of another God besides Him who made the promise to Abraham, are outside the kingdom of God, and are disinherited from [the gift of] incorruption, setting at naught and blaspheming God, who introduces, through Jesus Christ, Abraham to the kingdom of heaven, and his seed, that is, the Church, upon which also is conferred the adoption and the inheritance promised to Abraham."
Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Book 5, Chapter 34, Paragraph 1
"Now I have shown a short time ago that the church is the seed of Abraham..."
John Chrysostom on Galatians 6:15-16
"Observe the power of the Cross, to what a pitch it hath raised him! not only hath it put to death for him all mundane affairs, but hath set him far above the Old Dispensation. What can be comparable to this power? for the Cross hath persuaded him, who was willing to be slain and to slay others for the sake of circumcision, to leave it on a level with uncircumcision, and to seek for things strange and marvellous and above the heavens. This our rule of life he calls "a new creature," both on account of what is past, and of what is to come; of what is past, because our soul, which had grown old with the oldness of sin, hath been all at once renewed by baptism, as if it had been created again. Wherefore we require a new and heavenly rule of life. And of things to come, because both the heaven and the earth, and all the creation, shall with our bodies be translated into incorruption. Tell me not then, he says, of circumcision, which now availeth nothing; (for how shall it appear, when all things have undergone such a change?) but seek the new things of grace. For they who pursue these things shall enjoy peace and amity, and may properly be called by the name of "Israel." While they who hold contrary sentiments, although they be descended from him and bear his appellation, have yet fallen away from all these things, both the relationship and the name itself. But it is in their power to be true Israelites, who keep this rule, who desist from the old ways, and follow after grace."
1: That Bible prophecy should be interpreted LITERALLY.
2: That "the Jews" would be brought BACK to their ancient homeland.
3: That, after being brought back to their ancient homeland, "the Jews" would be CONVERTED en masse.
4: That the seventieth week of Daniel's seventy weeks remains to be fulfilled IN THE END TIMES.
5: that the church would be "suddenly caught up" BEFORE the "great tribulation."
ALL of these things were not only taught, but CLEARLY taught, before the year 200, and continued to be taught at least into the fifth century.
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