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To: wideawake
the Jewish people are the physical Israel.

One twelfth of the physical Israel, or maybe one sixth (since Judea was populated by the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and part of Levi).

Scott Hahn points out that, when St. Paul says in Romans that "the Gospel will be preached to the Gentiles, and thus all Israel will be saved" he means precisely that "all Israel" is irreparably mingled with the Gentiles, and so it is precisely be bringing the Gentiles into the Church that "all Israel" is reunited as the one People of God.

45 posted on 04/01/2002 10:56:00 AM PST by Campion
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To: Campion, berned
Campion brings another interesting point into the discussion. Ezekiel does draw a distinction in his prophecy between the "house of Judah" and the "house of Israel" and emphasizes again and again the sunderedness of the two halves of God's people.

At that point in history, as Ezekiel wrote from the exile of Juda in Babylon, the house of Israel or what we call the "lost tribes" were scattered among the nations.

47 posted on 04/01/2002 11:05:04 AM PST by wideawake
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