I know your works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but you are rich) and I know the blasphemy of them who say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
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Bede
AD 735
Jews: "They profess that they know God, but in works they deny Him." For Jew is a name of religion. And so also the Apostle says, "who is a Jew inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart," "not in the letter." <a
