Such an injustice as that done by the Gentile church to Judaism is almost unprecedented in the annals of history. The Gentile church stripped it of everything; she took away its sacred book; herself but a transformation of Judaism, she cut all connection with the parent religion. The daughter first robbed her mother, then repudiated her.
Source: Adolf von Harnack - Adolf von Harnack (German Lutheran historian and theologian), The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries, p. 69, as quoted by Daniel Malakowsky in Lesson 7 of The History and Nature of Church Divisions, http://www.churchdivisions.com
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