And Trypho said in reply to these things: "I have told you, O man, that you are zealous to be secure in all things, keeping close to the Scriptures. But tell me—do you truly confess that this place, Jerusalem, will be rebuilt, and do you expect that your people will be gathered together and rejoice with the Christ, together with the patriarchs and the prophets and the saints of our nation, or also of those who became proselytes before your Christ came? Or have you proceeded to confess these things so that you might seem to get the better of us in our inquiries?"
And I said: "I am not so wretched, O Trypho, as to say other things than what I think. I confessed to you also before that I and many others are of this mind, so that we know without doubt that this will come to pass; but I also indicated to you that many who are of the pure and pious Christian opinion do not acknowledge this."
"For I have shown you that those who are called Christians, but are in reality godless and impious heretics, teach in all respects things blasphemous and godless and senseless. And that you may know that I do not say this only in your presence, I will, as far as I am able, make a composition of all the discourses that have passed between us, in which I will also write down that I confess this very thing which I confess to you. For I choose to follow not men nor the teachings of men, but God and the teachings that come from Him."
"For even if you have met with some who are called Christians, but who do not confess this, and even dare to blaspheme the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—who also say there is no resurrection of the dead, but that as soon as they die their souls are taken up into heaven—do not suppose them to be Christians; just as one would not, if he rightly examined the matter, acknowledge the Sadducees, or the similar sects of the Genistae and Meristae and Galilaeans and Hellenians and Pharisees and Baptists, to be Jews (and do not hear me with displeasure when I say all that I think), but rather to be called Jews and children of Abraham, and confessing God with their lips, as God Himself has cried out, while keeping their heart far from Him."
"But I, and any who are right-minded Christians in all respects, know both that there will be a resurrection of the flesh, and a thousand years in a Jerusalem built up and adorned and enlarged, as the prophets Ezekiel and Isaiah and the others confess."