00:11:15.560So, where we lost you, you were talking about Thomas Hobbes, and, you know, I want to say the last part I remember was when you were talking about Thomas Hobbes thinking it was perfectly acceptable to execute people that convert to Christianity, not Christianity, Judaism, pardon me.
00:11:42.260Yeah. So, okay. So Hobbes cherishedly suggests in his leviathan that all this bad behavior might be down to the fact that Jews are inherently superstitious, believing as they did in the Indian-like possession that illnesses were really in the possession of an individual by evil spirits, which needed to be driven out.
00:12:01.260But by the same token, Jews also believed the gift of prophecy was really the possession of an individual by good spirits, and that are to be nurtured and not driven out.
00:12:11.260Hobbes is also skeptical about the existence of angels and argues that they are either beings in a different physical plane or imaginary beliefs.
00:12:18.260Hobbes, less flatteringly, attributes the superstitious nature to the fact that the Jews were decadent seekers of pure hedonism, which he argues is fundamentally why Israel had such trouble discerning madmen from prophets,
00:12:30.260Hobbes because they both tended to wear them for being hedonistic and thus were difficult to distinguish from one another.
00:12:35.260This led to some Jews, notably the Sadducees, endorsing a form of pseudo-atheism in Hobbes' view, while other religious fanatics, Hobbes' madmen and prophets, tended to demand and sometimes cause the extermination of non-Jews.
00:12:50.260Hobbes is essentially suggesting a split reaction to the prophets sent by God to warn the Jews about the behaviour and lack of contractual obedience.
00:12:59.260In that those who were disposed towards authority tended to follow the pseudo-atheists, while those who tended towards subversiveness tended to follow the prophets' madmen, as demonstrated in Hobbes' mind by the behaviour in the Roman Empire during the Jewish revolts.
00:13:12.260Hence, Jews' return, according to Hobbes, will return the Jews to the fold of Christianity, but until that time the Jews will remain the devout and fanatical enemies of Christianity.
00:13:21.260This energy Hobbes implicitly styles as even taking place inside of Christianity between Judaizers and non-Judaisers, with the Judaizers returning to their superstitious roots in general, i.e., the references to idolatry and immoral practices in the Old Testament used by Hobbes, and the non-Judaisers remaining pure of heart.
00:13:40.260The cause of this devout anti-Christian, or more broadly anti-Gentile, as we can see, even recognises it in Leviathan,
00:13:49.260Fanatis and Hobbes asserts to be the fact that the Jews and other Jews' murdering Jesus, misinterpreting the Mosaic clause,
00:13:56.260to suit the needs of the moment, hence why they miss the signs that are met at the tender of Jesus' birth.
00:14:01.260The Jews have attempted to both oppose God from his throne, and thus have broken their covenant, i.e., their social contract with him, because they have not honoured its terms,
00:14:10.260as well as admitting foreign, i.e., idolatrous beliefs, into their canon.
00:14:13.260This has led to the perfusion of false prophets, Hobbes' madmen, among the Jewish diaspora, who will fake prophetic dreams and, quote, abuse scripture to make it fit their prophecies,
00:14:24.260in order to increase Jewish antipathy towards Christians and Christianity, in line with the devil's plans.
00:14:31.260What Hobbes prescribes is that during the second coming of Jesus, the Jews shall become new men, much as they did when Moses died.
00:14:54.260And what token Israel means to proclaiming freedom?
00:14:57.260Theuits are called the segregationists, or the ruled political