, 1880-05-09

PETER AND PAUL.
II. ERNEST REMAINS LECTURES ON THE LEGEND OF
TIE ROMAN CaURCH-A BRILLIANT DISCOURSE.
On April 8M. Renan delivered in ST. Georges
Hall, Langham place, London, the second Hib-
bert lecture on The Legend OF the Roman
Church-Peter and Paul" In the first he en-
deayored to show the fnextricable difficulty in
which the Roman Empire found itself in the
first century in dealing with religion. In the
inevitable death-g1npple with Paganism, It was
already becoming clearer and clearer that Juda-
ism, under the Christian form, must Curry the
day. The future belonged to the Jew. The
jewish colony at Rome dated from about B. G.
90. The lsraelites multiplied rapidly. Cicero
plumed himself on his courage in having resist
ed them. Cp8sar favored them, and found them
trustworthy. The mob hated them, found them
spiteful, and charged them with forming
secret society whose members pushed them
selves forward without scruple at the cost OF
others But all did not judge thus hastily;
the Jews had as many friends as libel
ers. Juveuai's eneers at the Judatzing
ladies Of his time proved the literal fulfllment
OF Zachariah's prophecy, that people would lay
hold Of the skirts Of Jew and would beg to be
led to Zion. The Ghetto of that early ago was
across the Tiber; hence in the poorest and dlrtd-
est slums Of the city, most likely near the mod
ern PortA Portese. The first nucleus OF Kome's
Jewish population had been freedmen, mostly
sprung from prisoners Of war brought by
Pompey from Jerusalem. They had chung to
their religion in spite Of their cruel bondage,
and their synaEogs at Rome had never broken
OF their relations with Jerusalem. The original
COLONY had been reinforced nv many emlerants,
who we're started in life by their brethren as
peddlers, or became adopts In the tade OF beg
giu9. No Roman who respected himself ever
set foot in the quarter, which was sink OF tho
most aesp1sea ehsses anu uo noss use tne ....e
industries. The ponce never penetfa1eo nito
the district save when Its squaob'es grew TOO
bloody or Few ae,es Of Rome anS
-. -, .o1,e.n,,a ~,.as
III orulnafs LILIES no '''1oA o"eo ~ 'oo' A''s7
A world Of ideas was Matching in this long
ehora 1onnat4on. hut yras lost in the roar of the
rreat civ. and the proud patricians who PRONE
naueu ~ a. III nrss +ha ;I,er .hat f,1t11re
tras nrcnarnr IN tose hoyels at The foot Of the
Hsn,cuj,,m. Near he bort was the Taberna
MeIitora. kand 91 low ~ Wnon nse@ "c ~
soialers anu Inc Ae , IT; s,erI,r, re,,td :, b"Te
ta;shed m1 frnm rocl. afterwards the taberna
t1 teas 1aWs,,t ahont the nroperty between
.he Ehr;st;ona and tha o,,id of innkcepers and
he Emneror adiudgcd the house to the Chris
tians@ " ncic ~ - ptian;t1 pti ~ With mmat haTa
~ Wv, m Uau +h nnmhcr Of those foreign su-
nerstitinns* AGAINST whose encroachmcnts
nnno113 ,,.aooMtions 4' n tho former hnif of the
hit cemtury. It was quite natural, II.
Henan armed. that the Capital should hear
gatinn If the intermediate provinces, Us that a
zaoI '.,,,r ". 1no,ntafn ncnk shn1ld be cildcd by
The dawn much sooner than the valleys y,,5 Ro%e nc
s,E;oua Sas na bad most business It must be admit
ns1'tis f hen ad hat % toSards 4. D. 50 some jews
ron Christians entered e 1hs2 The Tn En-
PERU PER-: ~, Pnat' which had already made thom-
ae;yes ~ hnnnT Nobody then thought thar the
founder Of new Empire second Re komulus'
G was toFn Fn1tasg soon and letters from Syria
pa5 brnncat tG by the new Corners told Of movement
'1 "t5 1onether eVorybody Smelling Of garlic
,,,or and 1irtr nrocta riaus,-these ancestors Of
tuo' ttfe Woman Observation-Disclosures, unmannered
1t,td men, in hrpath ike that Of lifted people. we
1anlcI a., ns,nas ~ nous Jewish coupe who
1xnre mixed l1p with these movemcnts.-Aquila,
pI!ssnii1n 1sisaii1n' ,;a n, wiFe
n%t 1e onpht to see, not in St. Peters, but In
the Old Ghetto at the porta Portese. the birth,
hn,,e1 g1aT1 o,oht to have been reared to the two
g.a9 Jews from Pontus who first syl!abled upon
fhe n,1ays at Rome the name OF jesus one
n nam pt ,pas not r.. ike the churches Of Asia Minor
Manednuja. and Greece planted by Paul It
was Jewish Christian foundation directly Gd4g
fPrnng go1d 1rG 1nS never be on his own ground; he
Woniu sec III a's ta.t ;nd,,,renfir. but which
which ~ ne ts Won,q o o,Gd his exated idcaiism At
tachnd To to the circumcision and to externalisn
Eolol!te ~ ~ I;sh ~ +han Christan as to the
@ ooctl,ne ~ au 9esth If icsns. US we'll as by its
atzon~ attachment to Micrarianism tho Church
81 et'oRs R6me presented from its earliest days
o. o. ho1 aaso,tiai characteristics which mark 1t
: the tt'.s,,'1sto,,t eSso1 IA long and marvellous
tuluusno"A tatts dnuuhter Of Jerusalem In
ntstolys i3-o 4ho Church Of Rome would al
Ine 20 M asnettc and sacerdotal stamp op
aa Hass tn 4he - Prnfestant tendcpcy Of Paul Peter