I know of but not well. I would have to go back to the OT to study the specific event and gain an understanding of it. I haven't studied it seeking that type of understanding. I only understood it as the steady downfall of the nation of Israel.
How can you state with any dogma that James was speaking in this manner to this specific people when using the terms to the dispersed? Can it mean anything else?
Well,scattered abroad in Strong's Greek is translated....
1290. diaspora dee-as-por-ah' from 1289; dispersion, i.e. (specially and concretely) the (converted) Israelite resident in Gentile countries:--(which are) scattered (abroad).
Notice ''dispersion'' and '' Israelite resident in Gentile countries''
James 1:1 ''to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad''
Israel was taken into Assyrian captivity and then scattered among the nations...
John 7:35:Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?
Did God cast away his people?(Israel)
Romans 11:1:I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
If Israel did not exist among the nations,then how would the covenants and prophecies in the Bible be fulfilled?
Amos 9:9:For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
THE JEWISH CHRONICLE, May 2, 1879: "There has always been, however, an unwillingness to admit that a fate which has befallen so many nations has overtaken the Ten Tribes. Why should they have been less tenacious of life than their brethren of Judah? Nay, the Scriptures speak of a future restoration of Israel, which is clearly to include both Judah and Ephraim. THE TEN TRIBES ARE CERTAINLY IN EXISTENCE, ALL THAT HAS TO BE DONE IS TO DISCOVER WHICH PEOPLE REPRESENT THEM."
The 1905 JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA, Vol. 21, page 249 reads: "If the Ten Tribes have disappeared, they must exist UNDER A DIFFERENT NAME."
Early Church Fathers Knew This(Taken from Paul and Joseph of Arimathea)
Bishop Burgess wrote, "Of St. Paul's
journey to Britain, we have as satisfactory
proof as any historical question can
demand." This same view is repeated in
the writings of Baronius, Alford (Roman
Catholic historian), Archbishops Parker
and Ussher, and other church authorities.
In A.D. 600, Venantius Fortunatus
wrote of Britain as having been "evangelized"
by St. Paul.
In A.D. 435 Theodoretus wrote, "Paul,
liberated from his first captivity at Rome,
preached the Gospel to Britons and others
in the West. Our fishermen and publicans
(the Disciples) not only persuaded the
Romans and their tributaries to acknowledge
the Crucified and His laws, but the
Britons also and the Cimbri (Cymry)."
Theodoretus, in his commentary on 2
Timothy 4:6 wrote, "When Paul was
sent by Festus on his appeal to Rome,
he traveled, after being acquitted,
into Spain, and thence extended his
excursions into other countries and
TO THE ISLANDS SURROUNDED BY
THE SEA.” (emphasis added). These
could only have been the British Isles.
This is no obscure cleric speaking but, the
Bishop of Cyropolis and a participant in
the General Council at Ephesus in A.D.
431 and at Chalcedon in A.D. 451 consisting
of 600 Bishops.
Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea, wrote in
A.D. 320, "The Apostles passed beyond the
ocean to the isles called the Britannic
Isles."
Clement of Rome (mentioned in
Phil. 4:3) wrote a letter to the church at
Corinth between A.D. 91 and A.D. 100 in
which he stated that Paul "went to the
end of the west.”
"The Church of Avalon, in Britain, no
other hands than those of the disciples of
our Lord. themselves, built." Publius
Discipulus.
"The mother church of the British Isles
is the church in-Insula Avallonia, called
by the Saxons, Glastonbury." Bishop
Ussher.
"If credit be (given to ancient authors,
this church of Glastonbury is the senior
church of the world." Bishop Fuller.
"It is certain that Britain received the
faith in the first age from the first source
of the Word." Sir Henry Spillman.
"I scarcely know of one author from the
time of the fathers downwards, who does
not maintain that Paul, after his liberation,
preached in western Europe, Britain
included." Capellus, in his history of the
Apostles.
