[20] Eus. Mart. Pal. II.
[21] Ibid., Chap. II.
[22] Hist. Ecc. III, 1.
[23] Socrates Hist. Ecc. IIII, 13.
[24] Hist. Ecc. VII, 15.
[25] Cf. E. Underhill 'Mysticism.'
[26] E.g., The Dukhabours.
[CHAPTER IV]
CHILIASM AND PATRIOTISM
Perhaps the most pronounced characteristic of pre-Christian, Judaistic Chiliasm is its nationalistic or ethnic patriotism. Of course any attempt to rigidly differentiate the nationalistic and religious concepts of the Hebrews of the two centuries preceding the advent of Christianity would be foredoomed to failure. Never perhaps were patriotism and religion more nearly synonymous than at this period among this people. That their Chiliasm has a strongly nationalistic content is therefore natural and inevitable. The same patriotic animus is to be found in a great number of their other religious tenets and practices. The emphasis is perpetually upon the enhancement of the value of the Jewish race and nation and the corresponding depreciation of other nations and faiths.