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Dialogus cum Tryphone Judaeo

Chapter 106

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St. Justin Martyr

Transcribed from a dated scan; artifacts may remain. Edition notes

The rest of the Psalm showed that He knew that His Father would supply Him with everything, as He desired, and would raise Him from the dead, and that He urged all who feared God to praise God, for that even by the mystery of Him who was crucified He had mercy on every race of men who were believers, and because He stood in the midst of His brethren, the apostles. For these, after He had risen from the dead, and they had been convinced by Him that even before His passion He told them that He must suffer these things, and that these things had been proclaimed beforehand by the prophets, repented of forsaking Him when He was crucified. The Psalm also showed that while He was with them He sang hymns to God, as the Memoirs of the apostles tell us did in fact take place.

The words of the Psalm are: I will declare Thy name to my brethren, in the midst of the assembly will I sing hymns to Thee. Ye that fear the Lord, praise Him. All ye the seed of Israel, glorify Him; let all the seed of Israel fear Him.

When we are told that He changed the name of one of the Apostles to Peter, and we find it recorded in his Memoirs that this took place (besides His having also changed the names of two other brethren, the sons of Zebedee, to that of Boanerges which is sons of thunder), it was an indication that this was He by whom the second name Israel was given to him that was called Jacob, and the name Jesus was added to Oshea, by which name also the people that survived of them that had come forth from Egypt were led into the land that had been promised to the patriarchs.

And that He was to spring up as a star by means of the race of Abraham, Moses made known covertly when he said thus: A star shall spring up out of Jacob, and a leader out of Israel. And another Scripture saith: Behold, the man — His name is Dayspring. When therefore a star sprang up also in heaven at the very time of His birth, as is written in the Memoirs of His apostles, the Wise Men from Arabia recognized Him from this, and came and worshipped Him.

Trans. A. Lukyn Williams, D.D., Honorary Canon of Ely, Translations of Christian Literature, Series I, Greek Texts, 1930. Public domain.

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