You see however how He makes the same promises to both Isaac and Jacob. For He speaks to Isaac thus: And all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in thy seed.Deuteronomy 32:20 And to Jacob: And all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed in thee and in thy seed. He does not continue saying this to Esau or to Reuben, or to any other, but only to them from whom the Christ was to come in accordance with the Dispensation of God through the Virgin Mary.
And if you were also to consider the blessing of Judah, you would see what I say. For the seed is divided after Jacob, and comes down through Judah and Pharez and Jesse and David. Now these facts were signs that some of your race will be found children of Abraham, seeing that they are also found in the portion of Christ. But others, though children of Abraham, being the sand on the sea-shore,Genesis 22:17 which is unproductive and unfruitful, though great and innumerable, but not producing any fruit at all, but only drinking up the water of the sea. And of this is the greater part of your nation convicted, for you all drink up doctrines of bitterness and godlessness, while you utterly reject the word of God.
He says therefore in the passage about Judah: A prince shall not fail from Judah and a ruler from his loins, until what is laid up for him shall come; and he shall be the expectation of the Gentiles. And that this was said not of Judah but of the Christ, is plain. For all we who are of all the Gentiles are not expecting Judah, but Jesus, who also brought up your fathers out of Egypt. For the prophecy proclaimed beforehand until the coming of the Christ: until he come for whom it is laid up; and he shall be the expectation of the Gentiles.
So then He has come, as we have proved at some length, and He is the object of our expectation, to come again upon the clouds, even Jesus, whose name ye do profane, and ye cause it to be profaned in all the earth.
Now, Gentlemen, I could contend with you about the passage, which you interpret by affirming that it runs: until those things that are laid up for him come. For this is not the interpretation of the Seventy, but, until He come for whom it is laid up.
But since the words that follow indicate that this is said of Christ (for they are: And He shall be the expectation of the Gentiles) I do not enter into a discussion about the exact phrase, just as I was not anxious to draw my proof about the Christ from the Scriptures that you do not acknowledge, namely from words (attributed to) the prophet Jeremiah and Esdras and David, which I also recited, but from those which you acknowledge still. For if your teachers had understood these, you may be well assured that they would have deleted them as (they have treated) those that speak of the death of Isaiah, whom you sawed asunder with a wooden saw. Now this itself was a hidden emblem of the Christ, who is to cut your nation asunder, deeming some worthy of His everlasting kingdom with the holy patriarchs and prophets. But He has already said that He will send some to the sentence of unquenchable fire, with those of all the Gentiles who, like them, are disobedient and unrepentant.
For they shall come, He said, from west and east, and shall recline (at the feast) with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into the outer darkness.
This, I added, would I say because I care for nought else than to speak what is true, intending to be afraid of no one, even though I were at once to be torn in pieces of you. For I cared nought even for any of my own nation, I mean the Samaritans, when I addressed myself to Caesar in writing, and I said that they were deceived in obeying Simon the Magician in their nation, whom they say is above every principality and authority and power.Acts 8:10