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Chapter CXXVI.—The various names of
Christ according to both natures. It is shown that He is God, and appeared to
the patriarchs.
“But if you knew, Trypho,”
continued I, “who He is that is called at one time the Angel of
great counsel,2439
2439 [By
Isaiah. “Counsellor” in English version.] | and a
Man by Ezekiel, and like the Son of man by Daniel, and a Child by Isaiah,
and Christ and God to be worshipped by David, and Christ and a Stone by
many, and Wisdom by Solomon, and Joseph and Judah and a Star by Moses,
and the East by Zechariah, and the Suffering One and Jacob and Israel by
Isaiah again, and a Rod, and Flower, and Corner-Stone, and Son of God,
you would not have blasphemed Him who has now come, and been
born, and suffered, and ascended to heaven; who shall also come
again, and then your twelve tribes shall mourn. For if you had understood
what has been written by the prophets, you would not have denied that He
was God, Son of the only, unbegotten, unutterable God. For Moses says
somewhere in Exodus the following: ‘The Lord spoke to Moses, and
said to him, I am the Lord, and I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob, being their God; and my name I revealed not to them, and I
established my covenant with them.’2440 And thus
again he says, ‘A man wrestled with Jacob,’2441 and asserts it was God; narrating that Jacob
said, ‘I have seen God face to face, and my life is
preserved.’ And it is recorded that he called the place where He
wrestled with him, appeared to and blessed him, the Face of God (Peniel).
And Moses says that God appeared also to Abraham near the oak in Mamre,
when he was sitting at the door of his tent at mid-day. Then he goes on
to say: ‘And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, three
men stood before him; and when he saw them, he ran to meet
them.’2442 After a little, one of
them promises a son to Abraham: ‘Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying,
Shall I of a surety bear a child, and I am old? Is anything impossible
with God? At the time appointed I will return, according to the time of
life, and Sarah shall have a son. And they went away from
Abraham.’2443 Again he speaks of
them thus: ‘And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward
Sodom.’2444 Then to Abraham He who
was and is again speaks: ‘I will not hide from Abraham, my servant,
what I intend to do.’ ”2445 And
what follows in the writings of Moses I quoted and explained; “from
which I have demonstrated,” I said, “that He who is described
as God appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and the other
patriarchs, was appointed under the authority of the Father and Lord, and
ministers to His will.” Then I went on to say what I had not said
before: “And so, when the people desired to eat flesh, and Moses
had lost faith in Him, who also there is called the Angel, and who
promised that God would give them to satiety, He who is both God and the
Angel, sent by the Father, is described as saying and doing these things.
For thus the Scripture says: ‘And the Lord said to Moses, Will the
Lord’s hand not be sufficient? thou shall know now whether my word
shall conceal thee or not.’2446 And again,
in other words, it thus says: ‘But the Lord spoke unto me, Thou
shalt not go over this Jordan: the Lord thy God, who goeth before thy
face, He shall cut off the nations.’2447
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