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XI.—The Expectation of the Gentiles.
“But that which a prophet of the Jews
foretold, that He was to be waited for by the Gentiles,756
| 756 Gen. xlix. 10. [This detailed statement of
the call of the Gentiles is peculiar to the Recognitions; comp.
i. 42. Such passages seem to indicate a tendency less
anti-Pauline than that of the Homilies, yet the christology and
soteriology are Ebionitic.—R.] | confirms above measure the faith of truth
in Him. For if he had said that He was to be waited for by the
Jews, he would not have seemed to prophesy anything extraordinary, that
He whose coming had been promised for the salvation of the world should
be the object of hope to the people of the same tribe with Himself, and
to His own nation: for that this would take place, would seem
rather to be a matter of natural inference than one requiring the
grandeur of a prophetic utterance. But now, whereas the prophets
say that all that hope which is set forth concerning the salvation of
the world, and the newness of the kingdom which is to be established by
Christ, and all things which are declared concerning Him are to be
transferred to the Gentiles; the grandeur of the prophetic office is
confirmed, not according to the sequence of things, but by an
incredible fulfilment of the prophecy. For the Jews from the
beginning had understood by a most certain tradition that this man
should at some time come, by whom all things should be restored; and
daily meditating and looking out for His coming, when they saw Him
amongst them, and accomplishing the signs and miracles, as had been
written of Him, being blinded with envy, they could not recognise Him
when present, in the hope of whom they rejoiced while He was absent;
yet the few of us who were chosen by Him understood
it.
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