Editing Antisemitism in Christianity (section)

===Tertullian===
The Church Father [[Tertullian]] ({{circa|155|240 AD}}) had a particularly intense personal dislike towards the Jews<ref name="Nicholls1993"/> and argued that the Gentiles had been chosen by God to replace the Jews because they were worthier and more honorable.<ref name="Nicholls1993"/> [[Origen|Origen of Alexandria]] ({{circa|184|253|lk=no}}) was more knowledgeable about Judaism than any of the other Church Fathers,<ref name="OLeary2004">{{cite book|last=O'Leary|first=Joseph S.|date=2004|chapter=Judaism|title=The Westminster Handbook to Origen|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=riEdrWEDFq0C&q=Origen+ordination&pg=PA13|location=Louisville, Kentucky|editor-last=McGuckin|editor-first=John Anthony|publisher=Westminster John Knox Press|isbn=0-664-22472-5|pages=135–138}}</ref> having studied [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], met [[Hillel, son of Gamaliel III|Rabbi Hillel the Younger]], consulted and debated with Jewish scholars, and been influenced by the allegorical interpretations of [[Philo|Philo of Alexandria]].<ref name="OLeary2004"/> Origen defended the canonicity of the Hebrew Bible<ref name="OLeary2004"/> and defended Jews of the past as having been chosen by God for their merits.<ref name="OLeary2004"/> Nonetheless, he condemned contemporary Jews for not understanding their own Law, insisted that Christians were the "true Israel", and blamed the Jews for the death of Christ.<ref name="OLeary2004"/> He did, however, maintain that Jews would eventually attain salvation in the final ''[[apocatastasis]]''.<ref name="OLeary2004"/> [[Hippolytus of Rome]] ({{circa|170|235 AD|lk=no}}) wrote that the Jews had "been darkened in the eyes of your soul with a darkness utter and everlasting."<ref name="Ref_m">Hippolytus, ''Treatise Against the Jews'' 6, in ''Ante-Nicene Fathers'' 5:220.</ref>