John Chrystostom,
If I’m looking for antisemites, I should begin with John Chrysostom because his sermons have been a contributing cause in every pogrom for the last sixteen hundred years.
https://books.google.com/books?id=J...The Fathers of the Church, Volume 68)&f=false
John Chrysostom, who eventually became the Archbishop of Constantinople, lived during the end of the fourth century when Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople, and Rome competed to lead the Christian Church. He preached homilies in which he criticized Jews, accused them of immoral behavior, and as a priest in Antioch, he accused the Jews of Antioch of crucifying Jesus. He used quotes from the Gospels and the Old Testament to criticize Jews, but as near as I can tell he did not use the Book of Acts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chrysostom
In his homilies he asked, “Do you fast with the Jews? Then take off your shoes with the Jews, and walk barefoot in the marketplace, and share with them in their indecency and laughter.” This quote suggests that Chrysostom’s main concern might have been Christians who associated with Jews. He saw Judaism as a competing religion, but I don’t know why bare feet should be a problem.
Often he accused Jews of being demons. “… the Jews themselves are demons?” So, I wonder if accusing people of being demons is the source of the term, demonization.
In some references he sounded like modern day people when he said, “Indeed the synagogue is ... not merely a lodging place for robbers and cheats but also for demons. ...This is true not only of the synagogues but also of the souls of the Jews, …But the Jews practice a deceit which is more dangerous ... “
He spoke equally harshly about pagans, “So the godlessness of the Jews and the pagans is on a par ... In their synagogue stands an invisible altar of deceit on which they sacrifice not sheep and calves but the souls of men.”
Or even more bizarre, “No necessity forced the Jews when they slew their own children with their own hands to pay honor to the avenging demons, ... Their ungodliness or their cruelty or their inhumanity? That they sacrificed their children or that they sacrificed them to demons? Because of their licentiousness, did they not show a lust beyond that of irrational animals?” This quote sounds like something I read in the Quran or maybe some other Islamic source.
Chrysostom spoke equally harshly about people he called Judaizing Christians, meaning Christians who attended Jewish events, which I think meant traditional Jewish holidays and also secular events like the theater, which Jews attended.
In a homily he said, “... demons dwell in the very souls of the Jews and in places in which they gather?... How do you Judaizers have the boldness, after dancing with demons, to come back to the assembly of the apostles? After you have gone off and shared with those who shed the blood of Christ, how is it that you do not shudder to come back and share in his sacred banquet,... “ So clearly Judaizing Christians annoyed him, and again he clearly he blamed Jews for something in which they could not have participated.
When he served as a priest in Antioch, he used Bible quotes to blame Jews for the crucifixion.
In at least two homilies he quoted Matthew 27:25. In one he said, “Consider, then, with whom” the Judaizing Christians “are sharing their fasts. It is with those who shouted (Matthew 27:25): ‘Crucify him, Crucify him,’ with those who said: ‘His blood be upon us and upon our children’ ".
“For the martyrs have a special hatred for the Jews since the Jews crucified him for whom they have a special love. The Jews said: ‘His blood be on us and on our children’ the martyrs poured out their own blood for him whom the Jews had slain.”
So clearly Chrysostom blamed the Jews of Antioch for the crucifixion even though none of them were alive 400 earlier when the crucifixion happened, but he did not invoke the Kingdom of Heaven to rain down fire on the Jews. As near as I can tell, he did not advocate violence against Jews.
http://www.preteristarchive.com/ChurchHistory/0386_chrysostom_adversus-judeaus.html
I have no idea who translated the above copy of Chrysostom’s homilies, but various websites appear to use the same copy.
Here is a google book, Discourses Against Judaizing Christians
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=b...stians+(The+Fathers+of+the+Church,+Volume+68)
As near as I can tell, Chrysostom never advocated violence against Jews, so he appears to me to have considered Jews to be adversaries in much the same way that he might have considered pagans or rival Christian factions to be adversaries rather than enemies.