Comment
The accusation of deicides is brought against the Jews during the Office of Darkness on Good Friday in the Missal of Dom Gaspard Lefebvre printed in 1948 with a Nihil obstat of 1939. We note that, in this commentary on the Psalms of Saint-Augustin, the word deicide does not appear in the Latin text. The word "deicide" does not exist in classical Latin. In 1939, the Catholic Church judged that there was a good anti-Semitism, its own, which we were asked to distinguish from racial anti-Semitism. In the 1954 editions of this missal, this word deicide disappears.
Citation
Quatrième leçon (p. 996)
Lecture du commentaire de S. Augustin sur les Psaumes
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Sixième Leçon
Texte latin :
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Non dicant Judaei: Non occidimus Christum.
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Quod fecit Pilatus, in eo ipso, quod fecit, aliquantum particeps fuit ; sed in comparatione illorum multo ipse innocentior.
Texte français :
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Que les Juifs ne disent pas : nous n'avons pas fait mourir le Christ.
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Ce qu'a fait Pilate pèse donc sur lui pour la part qu'il a prise dans le déicide. Mais si l'on compare sa conduite à celle des Juifs, il est de beaucoup moins coupable qu'eux.
