For centuries, most Christians leaders saw the Jews as turning away from God; and as god rejecting his people (which is a very common theme in the old testament)
Martin Luther had his famous essay: https://archive.org/details/martin_luther_on_the_jews/mode/2up
...but in the OT, god always took his people back. I think WW2 + Calvanism/Predestination + some guilt thrown in has created this belief with evangelical that the Jews are still God's chosen people. It may contract reformers of old, but it is oddly biblically consistent, especially since the Jews went through a type of Job style suffering (it doesn't matter if you think it was 3 million from starvation or 6 million from execution; both fit the suffering as redemption model from Christianity).
The current evangelical world view is probably a mix of the belief general suffering means they've been restored by God, and also a hope Israel fulfills the prophecy bringing about nuclear annihilation and the return of Jesus
The Romans didn't really believe suffering built virtue; that adversity made you stronger .. that view came from the Jews/Christians and that idea spread with Constantine. It's one of the big ironies of the left that their value on victimhood came from Christianity. But Christianity sought absolution from God who made all man in his image. Leftist/post-modernists see humans as equal without God, therefore we must make all people equal through communism, genetic engineering or transhumanistic surgery.
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