"The Talmud", p. 21
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In the 13th century "Popes Gregory IX and Innocent IV condemned the books of the Talmud as containing every kind of vileness and blasphemy against Christian truth, and ordered them to be burned because they spread many horrible heresies."
— Justinas Pranaitis
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "In the 13th century "Popes Gregory IX and Innocent IV condemned the books of the Talmud as containing every kind of vileness and blasphemy against Christian truth, and ordered them to be burned because they spread many horrible heresies."" in the context of ""The Talmud", p. 21" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Justinas Pranaitis" (Quotes, The Talmud Unmasked (1892): The Talmud Unmasked: The Secret Rabbinical Teachings Concerning Christians (Latin: Christianus in Talmud Iudaeorum: sive, Rabbinicae doctrinae Christiani secreta) is an antisemitic book by Pranaitis, noted to contain factual inaccuracies.)
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About Justinas Pranaitis
Justinas Pranaitis (Russian: Иустин Бонавенту́ра Пранайтис; 27 July 1861 – 28 January 1917) was a Lithuanian Catholic priest and Professor of Hebrew at the St. Petersburg Roman Catholic Theological Academy. He is best known as the author of the antisemitic"Pranaitis drew on the works of the German anti-Talmudists Jakob Ecker and August Rohling. … Today, The Talmud Unmasked is still being distributed by extreme right-wing and clerical circles and can be accessed from a number of antisemitic websites." Michael Hagemeister and Richard Levy (transl.): "Pranaitis, Justinas (1861–1917)". In Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution, Volume 1, pp. 564–565. ABC-CLIO Ltd. (2005). ISBN: 978-1851094394. book The Talmud Unmasked, which contains factual inaccuracies.For example, on page 82 of the E. N. Sanctuary edition of The Talmud Unmasked, Pranaitis gives Abhodah Zarah 26b as a source for the phrase "Even the best of the Goim should be killed". In actuality, this phrase occurs in Soferim 15:10 in the following context: "Yoḥai taught: Kill the best of the heathens in time of war." He is also known for his involvement in the Beilis trial.
About Justinas Pranaitis
Justinas Pranaitis (Russian: Иустин Бонавенту́ра Пранайтис; 27 July 1861 – 28 January 1917) was a Lithuanian Catholic priest and Professor of Hebrew at the St. Petersburg Roman Catholic Theological Academy. He is best known as the author of the antisemitic"Pranaitis drew on the works of the German anti-Talmudists Jakob Ecker and August Rohling. … Today, The Talmud Unmasked is still being distributed by extreme right-wing and clerical circles and can be accessed from a number of antisemitic websites." Michael Hagemeister and Richard Levy (transl.): "Pranaitis, Justinas (1861–1917)". In Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution, Volume 1, pp. 564–565. ABC-CLIO Ltd. (2005). ISBN: 978-1851094394. book The Talmud Unmasked, which contains factual inaccuracies.For example, on page 82 of the E. N. Sanctuary edition of The Talmud Unmasked, Pranaitis gives Abhodah Zarah 26b as a source for the phrase "Even the best of the Goim should be killed". In actuality, this phrase occurs in Soferim 15:10 in the following context: "Yoḥai taught: Kill the best of the heathens in time of war." He is also known for his involvement in the Beilis trial.
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