A sample of what appears in the Real Messiah order it hereSo then, since heretical madness was claiming that that Christ [i.e. Jesus] had come who had never been previously mentioned, it followed that it had to contend that that Christ was not yet come who had from all time been foretold: and so it was compelled to form an alliance with Jewish error, and from it to build up an argument for itself, on the pretext that the Jews, assured that he who has come was an alien, not
only rejected him as a stranger but even put him to death as an opponent, although they would beyond doubt have recognized him and have treated him with all religious devotion if he had been their own. It can have been no Rhodian law [Rhodian maritime law was in high repute] but a Pontic
one, which assured this shipmaster that the Jews were incapable of making a mistake respecting their Christ; although, even if nothing of this sort were found to have been spoken in prophecies against them, human nature alone and by itself, wide open to deception, might have persuaded him that the Jews could have made a mistake, being men, and that it would be wrong to use as a precedent the judgement of persons who had likely enough been mistaken
Scilicet nauclero illi non quidem Rhodia lex, sed Pontica, caverat errare Iudaeos in Christum suum non licere, quando, et si nihil tale praedicatum in illos inveniretur, vel sola utique humana conditio deceptui obnoxia persuasisset Iudaeos errare potuisse, qua homines, nec statim praeiudicium sumendum de sententia eorum quos credibile fuerat errasse.
