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| Chapter XLV.—Those who were righteous before and under the law shall be saved by Christ.
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Chapter XLV.—Those who were righteous
before and under the law shall be saved by Christ.
And Trypho said, “If I seem to interrupt
these matters, which you say must be investigated, yet the question which
I mean to put is urgent. Suffer me first.”
And I replied, “Ask whatever you please, as it
occurs to you; and I shall endeavour, after questions and answers, to
resume and complete the discourse.”
Then he said, “Tell me, then, shall those who
lived according to the law given by Moses, live in the same manner with
Jacob, Enoch, and Noah, in the resurrection of the dead, or
not?”
I replied to him, “When I quoted, sir, the words
spoken by Ezekiel, that ‘even if Noah and Daniel and Jacob were to
beg sons and daughters, the request would not be granted them,’ but
that each one, that is to say, shall be saved by his own righteousness, I
said also, that those who regulated their lives by the law of Moses would
in like manner be saved. For what in the law of Moses is naturally good,
and pious, and righteous, and has been prescribed to be done by those who
obey it;2084
| 2084 It, i.e., the
law, or “what in the law,” etc. | and what was
appointed to be performed by reason of the hardness of the people’s
hearts; was similarly recorded, and done also by those who were under the
law. Since those who did that which is universally, naturally, and
eternally good are pleasing to God, they shall be saved through this
Christ in the resurrection equally with those righteous men who were
before them, namely Noah, and Enoch, and Jacob, and whoever else there
be, along with those who have known2085
this Christ,
Son of God, who was before the morning star and the moon, and submitted
to become incarnate, and be born of this virgin of the family of David,
in order that, by this dispensation, the serpent that sinned from the
beginning, and the angels like him, may be destroyed, and that death may
be contemned, and for ever quit, at the second coming of the Christ
Himself, those who believe in Him and live acceptably,—and be no
more: when some are sent to be punished unceasingly into judgment and
condemnation of fire; but others shall exist in freedom from suffering,
from corruption, and from grief, and in immortality.”E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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