Mertcan Bulak
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At the start of the revolt, the leaders of the Jerusalem church were advised in a vision to flee the city. Pious Jews considered the Christian flight an act of treason, and it sealed the fate of the church in the Jewish world. With the decision to bar Christian Jews from synagogue services some years later, the break was complete. Any Jew who wished to remain faithful to his religion could not also be a Christian.
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After the emperor Nero’s persecution of Christians (AD 64), we never hear from Paul again, though there are traditions claiming he went to Spain. By that time the breach with traditional Judaism was almost complete. Gentile believers were not circumcised, they neither knew nor practiced Jewish dietary laws, and in most areas the Sabbath (seventh day) observance had given way to worship on the first day of the week, the day on which Jesus rose from the dead.
Paul spoke Greek fluently and was familiar with Greek thought and literature. This meant he could express the doctrines and teachings of Jesus, many of which were based on Old Testament beliefs foreign to the gentiles, in ways that the pagan mind could grasp. In addition, Paul was a Roman citizen, which gave him special freedom of movement, protection in his travels, and access to the higher levels of society.
Antioch was the administrative capital of the Roman province of Syria. With a population of half a million, it was also the third largest city in the empire, after Rome and Alexandria. As a busy cosmopolitan center, its racially mixed population was overwhelmingly gentile, but there was also a large Jewish community. At Antioch, for the first time, Jesus’ followers were called Christians. Originally, opponents of the church used the term as a derogatory label for the “devotees of the Anointed One” (in Greek, Christianoi ). But the believers soon adopted it gladly.
More and more of the converts were recruited from among Hellenist Jews. These were Jews who had come to Jerusalem from all parts of the Roman Empire to settle in the Holy City. They spoke Greek and used a common Greek translation of the Old Testament called the Septuagint.
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