Dialogue with Trypho

"Now, gentlemen," I said, "it is possible for us to show how the eighth day possessed a certain mysterious significance that the seventh day did not have, and which was revealed by God through these rites. But lest I seem to stray to other topics, understand what I say: the blood of that circumcision is obsolete, and we trust in the blood of salvation; there is now another covenant, and another law has gone forth from Zion. Jesus Christ circumcises all who are willing—as mentioned above—with knives of stone; that they may be a righteous nation, a people keeping faith, holding to the truth, and maintaining peace. Come then with me, all who fear God, who wish to see the good of Jerusalem. Come, let us go to the light of the Lord; for He has liberated His people, the house of Jacob. Come, all nations; let us gather ourselves together at Jerusalem, no longer plagued by war for the sins of her people. ‘For I was manifest to those who did not seek Me; I was found by those who did not ask for Me;’ He declares through Isaiah: ‘I said, Behold Me, to nations that were not called by My name. I have spread out My hands all day long to a disobedient and contrary people, who walked in a way that was not good, but followed their own sins. It is a people that provokes Me to my face.’"