And Trypho said: "Even if I seem to interrupt these words which you say are necessary to be examined, yet, since the question which I wish to examine presses, bear with me first." And I said: "Examine whatever you wish, as it occurs to you; for after the inquiries and answers I will try to take up the argument again and complete it."
And he said: "Tell me, then—those who lived according to the law ordained through Moses, will they live likewise with Jacob and Enoch and Noah in the resurrection of the dead, or not?"
And I said to him: "When I said, O man, the words spoken by Ezekiel—that 'Even if Noah and Daniel and Jacob should ask for sons and daughters, it shall not be given to them, but each shall manifestly be saved by his own righteousness'—I meant that those too who conducted their lives according to the law of Moses would likewise be saved. For in the law of Moses the things that are naturally good and pious and just were prescribed for those who obey them to practice; and the things ordained to be done with reference to the hardness of heart of the people are likewise recorded, which those under the law also practiced."
Since those who did the things that are universally and naturally and eternally good are well-pleasing to God, they too shall be saved, through this Christ, in the resurrection, together with the righteous who preceded them—Noah and Enoch and Jacob and any others who have lived—along with those who have recognized this Christ to be the Son of God; who also existed before the morning star and the moon, and who endured to be made flesh and born through this virgin of the race of David, in order that through this dispensation the serpent who did evil from the beginning, and the angels who became like him, might be destroyed, and that death might be despised, and that at the second coming of this Christ Himself it might wholly cease for those who believe in Him and live in a way pleasing to Him, existing no longer thereafter—when some shall be sent to be punished unceasingly in the judgment and condemnation of fire, while others shall be together in freedom from suffering and incorruption and freedom from grief and immortality.