Perhaps the most pronounced characteristic of pre-Christian, judaistic Chiliasm is its nationalistic or ethnic patriotism. |
If the letter would have been written there the sudden change of the Judaistic opponents could not be understood. |
The judaistic leaven, it is to be feared, went far to leaven the whole lump. |
Evidently, therefore, the epistle was written either before the judaistic controversy arose or else long after it was over. |
Apparently the acute stage of the judaistic controversy is over. |
This was the only result that the success of the judaistic agitation could have achieved. |