Dialogue with Trypho the Jew (C. 155 AD):
10
“Is there any other matter, my friends, in which we are blamed?…Are our lives
and customs also slandered by you? And I ask this: have you also believed
concerning us, that we eat men, and that after the feast, having extinguished the
lights, we engage in promiscuous concubinage?”
23
“If circumcision was not necessary before Abraham, nor before Moses the Sabbath
observance and festivals and sacrifices, then, similarly they are not necessary now,
when in accordance with the will of God, Jesus Christ the Son of God has been
born without sin, of a Virgin of the offspring of Abraham.”
41
“Hence God speaks by the mouth of Malachi, one of the twelve prophets, as I said
before, about the sacrifices at that time presented by you: ‘I have no pleasure in
you,’ says the Lord, ‘and I will not accept your sacrifices at your hands; for, from
the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, My Name has been glorified
among the Gentiles, and in every place incense is offered to My name, and a pure
offering: for My Name is great among the Gentiles says the Lord, but you profane
it.’ He then speaks to those Gentiles, namely us, who in every place offer sacrifices
to Him, i.e., the bread of the Eucharist, and also the cup of the Eucharist, affirming
both that we glorify His Name and you profane it.”
100
“He became Man by the Virgin so that the course which was taken by disobedience
in the beginning through the agency of the serpent, might be also the very course
by which it would be put down. For Eve, a virgin and undefiled, conceived the
word of the serpent, and bore disobedience and death. But the Virgin Mary
received faith and joy when the angel Gabriel announced to her the glad tidings
that the Spirit of the Lord would come upon her and the power of the Most High
would overshadow her, for which reason the Holy One being born of her is the Son
of God. And she replied: ‘Be it done unto me according to thy word.’”
The Resurrection (Date Unknown):
8
“Indeed, God calls even the body to resurrection, and promises it everlasting life.
When He promises to save the man, He thereby makes His promise to the flesh: for
what is man but a rational living being composed of soul and body?”
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