Dialogue with Trypho

"There will be no other God, O Trypho, nor was there from eternity any other existing," I thus addressed him, "but He who made and arranged all this universe. Nor do we think that there is one God for us and another for you, but that He alone is God who led your ancestors out of Egypt with a strong hand and an uplifted arm. Nor have we trusted in any other (for there is no other), but in Him whom you also have trusted, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob.

But we do not trust through Moses or through the law; for then we would do the same as you do.

But now—for I have read that there shall be a final law, and a covenant, the greatest of all, which it is now necessary for all people to observe, as many as are seeking after the inheritance of God. For the law given at Horeb is now old, and belongs to you alone; but this is for everyone universally.

Now, a law placed against another law has annulled the one before it, and a covenant which comes afterward in the same way has ended the previous one; and an eternal and final law—namely, Christ—has been given to us, and the covenant is trustworthy, after which there shall be no law, no commandment, no ordinance. Have you not read what Isaiah says: 'Listen to Me, listen to Me, my people; and, you kings, pay attention to Me: for a law shall go forth from Me, and My judgment shall be a light to the nations.

My righteousness approaches swiftly, and My salvation shall go forth, and nations shall trust in My arm?' And by Jeremiah, concerning this same new covenant, He thus speaks: 'Behold, the days come, says the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; not according to the covenant I made with their fathers on the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt.' If, therefore, God proclaimed a new covenant that was to be established, and this for a light to the nations, we see and are convinced that people approach God, leaving their idols and other unrighteousness, through the name of Him who was crucified, Jesus Christ, and hold firm to their confession even unto death, and maintain piety.

Moreover, by the works and by the accompanying miracles, it is possible for all to understand that He is the new law, and the new covenant, and the hope of those who from every people wait for the good things of God. For the true spiritual Israel, and descendants of Judah, Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham (who was approved of and blessed by God on account of his faith, and called the father of many nations, despite being uncircumcised), are we who have been led to God through this crucified Christ, as shall be demonstrated as we proceed."