There will never be any other God, Trypho, and there never was from all eternity, so said I to him, save He who made and established this universe. Nor do we consider that we have one God, and you another, but Him only who brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt by a mighty hand and a stretched out arm,Deuteronomy 5:15 Psalms 136:12 nor have we set our hopes on any other (for there is none), but only on Him on whom you also have set yours, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Yet our hope is set on Him not by means of Moses nor by means of the Law; for then we should assuredly be doing the same as you.
For in fact I have read, Trypho, that there is to be both a final Law and a Disposition that is superior to all others, which must now be observed by all those who lay claim to the inheritance of God. For the Law given at Horeb is already antiquated and belongs to you alone, but that other belongs to all men absolutely. And a Law set over against a Law has made the one before it to cease, and a Disposition coming into existence afterwards has in like manner limited any former one. And as an eternal and final Law was Christ given to us, and this Disposition is sure, after which there is no law, or ordinance, or command.
Or have you not read what Isaiah says: Hear ye me, hear ye me, O my people, and ye kings hearken unto me, for a law shall go forth from me and my judgment for a light of the nations. My righteousness draweth nigh speedily, and my Salvation shall go forth, and nations shall set their hope on my arm? And He speaks thus by Jeremiah about this same new Disposition: Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new Disposition with the House of Israel and the House of Judah, not that which I made with their fathers, in the day when I took hold of their hand to lead them forth from the land of Egypt.
If therefore God proclaimed a new Disposition as about to be established, and this for a light of the nations, we then see and are sure that by the name of Him who was crucified, Jesus Christ, men part from idols and all other iniquity, and draw near to God, and make confession of Him, and worship, enduring unto death.
And from their works, and the power that accompanies them, all can understand that He is the new Law, and the new Disposition, and the Expectation of those from among all the nations, who await the good things that come to them at the hands of God.
For we are the true and spiritual Israelitish nation, and the race of Judah and of Jacob and Isaac and Abraham, who when he was still uncircumcised received witness from God for his faith, and was blessed, and was called father of many nations — we, I say, are all this, who were brought nigh to God by Him who was crucified, even Christ, as will be demonstrated in the course of our discussion.