God has blessed? For when He speaks to Jerusalem and its environs, He thus added: ‘And I will beget men upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall inherit you, and you shall be a possession for them; and you shall be no longer bereaved of them.’ ”665 “What, then?” says Trypho; “are you Israel? and speaks He such things of you?” “If, indeed,” I replied to him, “we had not entered into a lengthy666 discussion on these topics, I might have doubted whether you ask this question in ignorance; but since we have brought the matter to a conclusion by demonstration and with your assent, I do not believe that you are ignorant of what I have just said, or desire again mere contention, but that you are urging me to exhibit the same proof to these men.” And in compliance with the assent expressed in his eyes, I continued: “Again in Isaiah, if you have ears to hear it, God, speaking of Christ in parable, calls Him Jacob and Israel. He speaks thus: ‘Jacob is my servant, I will uphold Him; Israel is mine elect, I will put my Spirit upon Him, and He shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not strive, nor cry, neither shall any one hear His voice in the street: a bruised reed He shall not break, and smoking flax He shall not quench; but He shall bring forth judgment to truth: He shall shine,667 and shall not be broken till He have set judgment on the earth. And in His name shall the Gentiles trust.’668 As therefore from the one man Jacob, who was surnamed Israel, all your nation has been called Jacob and Israel; so we from Christ, who begat us unto God, like Jacob, and Israel, and Judah, and Joseph, and David, are called and are the true sons of God, and keep the commandments of Christ.” 665 Ezek. xxxvi. 12. 666 [I cannot forbear to note this “Americanism” in the text.] 667 LXX. ἀναλάμψει, as above. The reading of the text is ἀναληψει. 668 Isa. xlii. 1–4. 697 Chapter CXXIII.—Ridiculous interpretations of the Jews. Christians are the…