Now the following expression: But Thou dwellest in the sanctuary, O Praise of Israel, signified that He was to do something worthy of praise and admiration, being about to rise on the third day after being crucified, which He has received from His Father. For I have shown that Christ is called both Jacob and Israel; and I have shown that not only in the Blessing of both Jacob and Judah have the things concerning Him been proclaimed in a mystery, but also in the Gospel He has been recorded as saying: All things have been delivered to me by the Father, and no one knoweth the Father save the Son, nor any the Son save the Father, and they to whom the Son shall have revealed Him.
He revealed therefore to us all that we have understood from the Scriptures by His grace, having come to know Him as First-born of God and before all created things, and son of the patriarchs, since He became incarnate by the Virgin who was of their race, and He endured becoming a man without form and honour, and liable to suffering.
Wherefore He said in His speeches, when He was discoursing about His being about to suffer, that: The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the Pharisees and Scribes, and be crucified, and rise on the third day. He called Himself Son of man for this reason, either from His birth by a virgin, who was, as I said, of the race of David and Jacob and Isaac and Abraham, or because Adam himself is father even of those that have been enumerated, from whom Mary traces her descent. For we also know that the progenitors of females are fathers of the children that are born to their daughters. For also one of His disciples, called Simon aforetime, when He recognized Him as Son of God, even Christ, according to the revelation of His Father, He surnamed Peter.
And finding Him written down in the Memoirs of His apostles as Son of God and calling Him Son, we have understood that He is so, and also that He came forth before all things that were made of the Father by His power and will. He also is termed both Wisdom " and Day and Dayspring and Sword and Stone and Rod and Jacob and Israel in this fashion or in that, in the words of the Prophets, and has become man by the Virgin, in order that by the same way in which the disobedience caused by the serpent took its beginning, by this way should it also take its destruction.
For Eve, being a virgin and uncorrupt, conceived the word spoken of the serpent, and brought forth disobedience and death. But Mary the Virgin receiving faith and grace, when the angel Gabriel brought her the good news that the Spirit of the Lord should come upon her, and the power of the Highest should overshadow her, wherefore also that Holy Thing that is born of her is Son of God, answered, Be it unto me according to Thy word.
And by her has He been born, about whom we have proved so many Scriptures have been spoken, by means of whom God destroys both the serpent and those angels and men that became like it, but for them that repent of their evil deeds, and believe on Him, does He work deliverance from death.