"There neither will ever be any other God, O Trypho, nor was there one from eternity"—thus I addressed him—"save him who made and ordered this universe. Nor do we hold that there is one God for us and another for you, but that very same God who led your fathers out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; nor have we set our hope on any other—for there is no other—but on this one in whom you also hope, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. Yet we have hoped, not through Moses nor through the Law; otherwise we would be doing the very same as you."
"But now—for I have read, O Trypho, that there should be a final law and a covenant most sovereign of all, which now all men must keep, as many as lay claim to the inheritance of God. For the old law given at Horeb belongs to you only, but this one to all men without exception; and a law set against a law has abolished the one before it, and a covenant coming afterward has likewise put an end to the former. As an eternal and final law there has been given to us Christ, and a faithful covenant, after which there is no law, no ordinance, no commandment."
"Or have you not read these words that Isaiah speaks: 'Hear me, hear me, my people, and you kings, give ear to me; for a law shall go forth from me, and my judgment for a light to the nations. My righteousness draws near speedily, and my salvation shall go forth, and the nations shall hope in my arm.' And through Jeremiah, concerning this very new covenant, he speaks thus: 'Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant—not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt...'"
"If, then, God proclaimed that a new covenant was to be ordained, and that this would be for a light to the nations; and if we see and are persuaded that men, through the name of this crucified Jesus Christ, having come over from idols and from all other unrighteousness to God, persevere in their confession and worship even unto death—then it is possible for all to understand, both from the works and from the accompanying power, that this is the new law and the new covenant and the expectation of those from all the nations who await the good things from God.
For the true, the spiritual Israel, and the race of Judah and Jacob and Isaac and Abraham—who, while in uncircumcision, was attested by God on account of his faith, was blessed, and was called the father of many nations—that is what we are, we who through this crucified Christ have been brought to God, as will be demonstrated as our discourse proceeds.