Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-07-31
TIE WANDERING JEW.

published by Roberts Brothers, we copy
the following;
"When the Jews were dragging Jesus
forth from Pilates Judgment Hall, and
had reached the door, Cartaphilus, por-
ter in Pilates service, as Jesus was going
out of the door, impiously struck him on
the back, and said in mockery, 80 quick
er, Jesus, go quicker Why do you loi-
ter? And jesus, looking back on him
with a severe countenance, said to him, i
am going, and you shall wait till return
And accordingly, as our Lord said, this
Cartaphilus is still awaiting his return.
At the time of our Lords suffering he was
thirty years old, and when he attains the
age Of one hundred and thirty he always
returns to the same age he was when our
Lord suffered. After Christ's death.
when the Catholic faith gained ground,
this Cartaphi!us was baptized by Anani-
as, who also baptized St, Paul, and was
called Joseph.
OF this Joseph, the Armenian bishop
went on to say that he dwelt in Armenia
and the East, greatly affected the society
OF bishops and prelates, was circumspect,
silent and charitable, and did not speak
except when spoken to, and then only to
tell of Christ's death, sufferings and re-
surrection. He was very tenacious as to
the character and rank of his questioners,
and very indifferent in the matter of gifts,
food aud raiment. Of this Jew, or his
double, Mr. Barring Gould collects many
and various accounts from the Neither
la lds, from Bohemia and from Arabia,
where be seems to have passed for Elijah,
but none of these present any considera-
Bile discrepancy from the account of the
Arm.ni4n bishop, until we come to the
testimony of Paul Won Eltzen, Doctor OF
the Holy Scriptures and Bish p of Schles-
wig, who declared that when he was
young, in the winter of 1547. A. D., 'on
sunday, in church, he observed tall
man, with his hair hanging over his
shoulders, standing barefoot during the
sermon, over against the pulpit, listening
with the deepest attention to the discourse,
and whenever the name of Jesus was men.
toned, bowling himself profoundly and
humbly, with sighs and beating of the
breast. He had no other clothing in the
bitter cod of winter except pair of hose,
which were in tatters, and coat with u
girdle which reached to his feet: : his gen.
eral appearance was that Of man Of fifty
years.
After church the Doctor obtained an in.
terview with the stranger, and elected
information which, though more eircum
stanial than the Armenian bishops story
differed from it materially. The Jew
gave his name as Ahasueras, and profess
that he had been an unbelieviDg cobblei
at the time of the ciucfxion. Gazing
from his doorstep at the sad procession tc
Calvary he had tried to curry favor with
the Jews by hurryiug Jesus forward wher
he fain would have rested moment from
his heavy burden Jesus looking upoI
him rebuked him in the words Il shall
stand and rest but thou shalt 60 to The
last day
The doom presently began to work
He. was constrained to 60 forth into for
eign lands, and on revisiting Jerusalem
after the lapse Of years found not one stone
left standing on another. In this account
as in the others. great stress is laid OF
the Jews never smiling; aud in Vor
Eitzen' 8 narrative he is made to interpret
the purpose of God in this judgment up
on him, and 10 confirm the truth of hil
tale of many wandcrings by submitting t
have his knowledge of Eastern geography
and history tested by the Rector of tb'
Hamburg University. Another new fea
ture rs his strong indignation at profan'
use Of Christ's name.
This was in l547. He is spoken to a
Madrid and Vienna 10 the same century
but as the world wakes older, writer's ev
iuce care to say little Of him on thei
personal testimony. Bulinger, iu his his
j tory Of his own time. takes especial pain
to guard himself against the suspicion o
| belief in this story. 10 1910 two burgh
ers Of BRUSSELS fall in with this ubiquit
ous Jew. or one who answers his descrip
tion. and Gt JoeS not exactly appear Why
conclude that their compartments is 'Isaa
Laquedom, the Jew who would not le
Christ rest on his doorstep, [p. 2l]. IL
turns up in London at the beginning Q
!, the eighteenth century, and seemO to hav