Paul holds the same people are simultaneously God’s enemies and his beloved

Evidence

There is thus a perspective according to which they are still God’s and God’s beloved-Israel and not Israel-and another perspective according to which they are God’s enemies: ”As regards the gospel, they are enemies,” echthroi, “of God for your sake; but as regards election they are beloved, for the sake of their ancestors; for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable” (11:28-29). — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 100 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

For my purpose here, what is more important is to consider that the relation between these different modes is described as one of open hostilities, for “the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God,” echthra eis theon, inimicitia est in Deum. It does not submit to God’s law-indeed, it cannot (8:7). Those who remain with the flesh therefore remain, and must remain hostile to God. And although Paul himself wishes that he could stay with them-” could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my own brothers, my kindred according to the flesh” (9:3)-he cannot. In complicated ways, he is and he is not their brother, much in the same way that they belong and do not belong to God. There is thus a perspective according to which they are still God’s and God’s beloved-Israel and not Israel-and another perspective according to which they are God’s enemies: ”As regards the gospel, they are enemies,” echthroi, “of God for your sake; but as regards election they are beloved, for the sake of their ancestors; for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable” (11:28-29). — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 100 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Paul held Israel simultaneously beloved and enemy of God — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 100; Paul makes Israel simultaneously God’s beloved and God’s enemy depending on perspective — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 100; Paul makes the Messiah both hated and beloved, neighbor and enemy (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Paul held Israel simultaneously beloved and enemy of God #corroborates (0.97) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 100
• Paul makes Israel simultaneously God’s beloved and God’s enemy depending on perspective #expands (0.93) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 100
• The love-enemy commandment turns the neighbor into an enemy to be loved #complicates (0.79)
• Warring for God makes one’s opponents automatically God’s enemies. #complicates (0.76) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1532