Dialogue with Trypho

So you should rather stop loving conflict and repent before the great day of judgment comes, when all those of your tribes who pierced this Christ will mourn, as I have shown has been declared by the Scriptures. I have explained that the Lord swore, 'after the order of Melchizedek,' and what this prediction means; and the prophecy of Isaiah which says, 'His burial is taken away from the midst,' I have already said, refers to the future burial and resurrection of Christ; and I have often remarked that this very Christ is the Judge of all the living and the dead.

Nathan also, speaking to David about Him, continued: ‘I will be His Father, and He shall be my Son; and I will not take away my mercy from Him, as I did from those who went before Him; and I will establish Him in my house, and in His kingdom forever.’ Ezekiel says, ‘There shall be no other prince in the house but He.’ For He is the chosen Priest and eternal King, the Christ, since He is the Son of God; and do not think that Isaiah or the other prophets speak of sacrifices of blood or libations being presented at the altar at His second coming, but of true and spiritual praises and thanksgiving.

We have not believed in Him in vain, nor have we been misled by those who taught us these doctrines; this has come to pass through the wonderful foreknowledge of God, so that through the calling of the new and eternal covenant, that is, of Christ, we might be found more intelligent and God-fearing than you, who are considered lovers of God and men of understanding, but are not. Isaiah, filled with admiration of this, said: ‘And kings shall shut their mouths; for those to whom no announcement has been made regarding Him shall see, and those who have not heard shall understand.

Lord, who has believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?’