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ger: it was, indeed, possible that the people, heedless of the Sanhedrin's designs, would

follow Jesus. For Caïaphas, this danger was even more real than the Roman danger.

St .Paul gives us a clear indication regarding the disappearance of the Jewish

race, had they fulfilled their mission as the chosen people, or had they negotiated the

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crossing to another plane. In Christ Jesus, says he, there is neither Greek nor Jew . One
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of the meanings of this phrase is that in christianised humanity, nations (which are,
after all, products of Babel) would be called upon to disappear and amalgamate: the

Jewish nation would have been the first to suffer this loss of identity. History gives us

several examples of the prevalence of faith over race. And we know that those of the

chosen people who welcomed the New Testament and were baptized, disappeared as
national entities. This assimilation of Jews through baptism has continued to our day,

Caïaphas must have been conscious of all this and foreseen the inevitable consequences

of a mass conversion of his people. This is why he came to the conclusion that it was
better to strike Jesus than to

33 Romans, X, 12; literal translation of the Slavonic text.
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The terminology used by the primitive Church distinguishes between: the man without
(Mark, IV, 11), the catechumen, who is facing the first Threshold, the fidel, who is between the
first and the second Thresholds, and finally the Saint or the Christian who, having crossed the
second Threshold, is on the Way, properly speaking.