See, then, how He promises the same things both to Isaac and to Jacob. For thus He says to Isaac: 'And in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed'; and to Jacob: 'And in you shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed, and in your seed.' He says this no longer to Esau nor to Reuben nor to any other, but to those from whom Christ was to be, according to the dispensation through the virgin Mary.
And if you would learn the blessing of Judah, you would see what I say. For the seed is divided from Jacob, and comes down through Judah and Phares and Jesse and David. And these were symbols that some of your race would be found children of Abraham, and found in the portion of Christ; but others, children of Abraham indeed, yet being like the sand on the seashore, which is barren and fruitless, being much and numberless, but bearing no fruit at all, but only drinking the water of the sea—which also is shown to be the great multitude in your race, drinking in teachings of bitterness and godlessness, but spitting out the word of God.
He says, then, also in the case of Judah: 'A ruler shall not fail from Judah, nor a leader from his loins, until He come for whom it is laid up; and He shall be the expectation of the nations.' And that this was spoken not concerning Judah but concerning Christ, is plain; for not Judah do we, all those from all the nations, expect, but Jesus, who also led your fathers out of Egypt. For up to the coming of Christ the prophecy proclaimed beforehand: 'Until He come for whom it is laid up; and He shall be the expectation of the nations.'
He has come, therefore, as we have shown in many places, and is expected again to come above the clouds—Jesus, whose name you profane and cause to be profaned throughout all the earth. It was possible for me, I said, O men, to contend with you about the reading which you expound, saying it runs: 'Until the things laid up for Him come'; since the Seventy did not so expound it, but: 'Until He come for whom it is laid up.'
But since what follows shows that it was spoken concerning Christ—for thus it runs, 'And He shall be the expectation of the nations'—I do not come to dispute with you about the little word, just as also I have not been zealous to make the demonstration concerning Christ from Scriptures not acknowledged by you, which I have also recounted, from the words of the prophet Jeremiah and Ezra and David, but from those acknowledged by you up to now. Which, if your teachers had understood, you may be sure they would have made away with, as also with the things concerning the death of Isaiah, whom you sawed asunder with a wooden saw—itself a mystery of Christ, who is to cut your race in two, and to count some, with the holy patriarchs and prophets, worthy of the eternal kingdom, but to send the others, with the like disobedient and unchangeable ones from all the nations, to the condemnation of the unquenchable fire, as He has already said.
For He said: 'They shall come from the west and the east, and shall recline with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of the heavens; but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into the outer darkness.' And these things, I said, I would speak because I care for nothing whatever except to speak the truth, intending to flatter no one, even though I must straightway be torn in pieces by you. For neither, making any account of any of my own race—I mean the Samaritans—when communicating in writing with Caesar, did I say that they were deceived in being persuaded by Simon the magician of their own race, whom they say to be God above every principality and authority and power.