Days of Vengeance - The Preterist Archive

APPENDIX B
apostate Jewry. The period of this spoiling was A.D. 30
to A.D. 70. Once the church had completed her
integration of the spoils of the Old Covenant into her
new, transfigured body, God destroyed the remnants of
the Old Covenant completely. Modern Jewish rituals
and music owe far more to racial/cultural inheritance
from the peoples of Eastern Europe than they do to the
Old Covenant. 9
Thus, while there is nothing wrong with converted
Jews maintaining a cultural continuity with their past,
there are no grounds for the assumption that post-
Christian Jewry has preserved the musical and liturgical
forms of the Bible. Those forms were preserved in the
church, and in her alone. Jews who wish to recover
their heritage would do well to study the early Church,
not the traditions of Eastern European cultures.
Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For
the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring
out of valleys and hills; A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil
olive, and honey; A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land
whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou
shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he bath given thee. Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy
God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day: Lest
when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; And when thy herds and thy
flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; Then thine heart be
lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of
bondage; Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and
drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint; Who fed thee in the
wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to
do thee good at thy latter end; And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me
this wealth. But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he
may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day. And it shall be, if thou do at all forget
the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that
ye shall surely perish. As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would
not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God. – Deuteronomy 8:6-20
For there is no respect of persons with God. For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law:
and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; (For not the hearers of the law are just before
God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the
things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law
written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else
excusing one another;) In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
– Romans 2:11-16
9. Louis Bouyer has shown at considerable length that the Eucharistic prayer of the early church was a modification of the prayers of the Synagogue and Temple. See
Bouyer, Eucharist (Notre Dame: U. of Notre Dame Press, 1968). Similarly, Eric Werner has shown that the plainchant of the Christian church preserves the style
of music known among the Jews of the Old Testament period. See Werner, The Sacred Bridge (Columbia U. Press, 1959; the paperback by Schocken only
reproduces the first half of this important study).
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