“JEW.”

 

He is not the Jew who is one outwardly * * *; but he is the Jew who is one inwardly—Paul.

 

            The Rabbins do not restrict the appellation “Jew” to the natural descendants of Abraham, or Judah, any more than the Apostle to the Gentiles. For it is written in the Talmud, “that whosoever denies idolatry is a Jew.” T. Rab. Megilloth, fol. 13. 1. Hence, in the same place, “Pharaoh’s daughter is called a Jewess, because she denied idolatry, and went down to wash herself from the idols of her father’s house.” And again it is said, that “faith does not depend upon circumcision, but upon the heart: he that believeth not as he should, circumcision does not make him a Jew; and he that believeth as he ought, he indeed is a Jew, though he is not circumcised.”—Sepher Niz. Ad. Gen. Apnd. Maji. Theolog. Jud. p. 252.