Le personnage de Syméon dans la polémique anti-juive : le cas de l’Ad Vigilium episcopum de Iudaica incredulitate (CPL 67°)
Résumé
The Ad Vigilium episcopum de Iudaica incredulitate, come to us under the name of Cyprian of Carthage and dated to the 3rd or the beginning of the 4th c., has been remembered especially for the few lines which deal with the Controversy of Jason and Papiscus, lost today, whereas the anti-Jewish development that makes up almost the entire letter has attracted little attention. Within a traditional, polemical frame about Christ, Celsus makes use of a collection of testimonia taken from the prophets, but he precedes this by a New Testament diptych: The Magies and Simeon who have given testimony to the arrival of Christ. Both could be used for the same purpose, namely to instruct the Jews. The case of Simeon shows how the author mixes traditional elements with little known exegesis. The rewriting of the Gospel pericope of Jesus in the Temple, despite its obvious meaning, causes problems of interpretations with regards to the subtle re-readings within the patristic tradition: a blind man who regains his sight by taking a child into his arms.
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