Pauline messianism divides the enemy into hated and beloved

Evidence

What begins to appear here is Paul’s own link between enmity and the messianic-more precisely, we witness a doubling of the messianic as what divides the subject (here, the son) in his subjection (“Therefore one must be subject, not only because of wrath but also because of conscience,” Rom. 13:5), as what divides the enemy as beloved (“love your enemies”). We will have to attend to these divisions and to the history of their elaborations, for in them and through them, the Messiah has become hated and beloved. (And, in the shadows of that link, another thread will have begun to guide our reading of the enemy: absolute subjection.) The Messiah, “who came and, as one says, became the neighbor,” the Messiah, then, has become the enemy. Such would be one of civilization’s great discomforts. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 114