The First Apology

And to show us through the Spirit of prophecy that He who suffers these things has an indescribable origin and rules His enemies, He said: “Who can describe His generation? Because His life is cut off from the earth: for their transgressions He comes to death. And I will give the wicked for His burial, and the rich for His death; because He did no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth. And the Lord is pleased to cleanse Him from the stripe.

If He is given for sin, your soul shall see His seed prolonged in days. And the Lord is pleased to deliver His soul from grief, to show Him light, and to form Him with knowledge, to justify the righteous who richly serves many. And He shall bear our iniquities.

Therefore, He shall inherit many, and He shall divide the spoil of the strong; because His soul was delivered to death: and He was counted with the transgressors; and He bore the sins of many, and He was delivered up for their transgressions.” Listen also to how He was to ascend into heaven according to prophecy.

It was spoken like this: “Lift up the gates of heaven; be opened, that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty.” And hear also how He should come again out of heaven with glory, as the prophet Jeremiah spoke about this. His words are: “Behold, as the Son of man He comes in the clouds of heaven, and His angels with Him.”