As they kept quiet I continued: (The word) by David, when speaking about this Christ, my Friends, no longer said that the Gentiles would be blessed in his seed, but in Him. Now the words stand thus: His name is for ever; above the sun shall it spring up; and all the nations shall be blessed in Him. But if all the nations are blessed in the Christ, and we out of all the nations believe on this Man, then He is the Christ and we they that have been blessed by Him.
The sun indeed God had given formerly for worship, as it is written, yet one cannot find any who ever endured death because of his belief in the sun. But one can find men of every nation, who, because of the name of Jesus, have endured, and do endure, sufferings of all kinds for not denying Him. For His word of truth and wisdom is more blazing and more brilliant than the sun’s might, and entereth into the very depths of the heart and of the understanding. Wherefore also did the word say: Above the sun shall His name spring up. And again: The dawn is His name, says Zechariah. And speaking about the same person he said: They shall lament, tribe by tribe.
Now in His first coming, which was without honour and form, and was despised, He yet showed so much brilliancy and might that in no single nation is He unknown: so that some among every nation have repented of the old evil manner of life belonging to each race, and even the demons are made subject to His name, and all the principalities and kingdoms fear the name of this Man beyond all that ever died. Will He not then most assuredly at His coming in glory destroy all them that have hated Him, and them that have unjustly revolted from Him, and give His own people rest, rendering to them all that they are expecting?
To us therefore was it given both to hear, and to understand, and to be saved by this Christ, and to know all the things of the Father. Therefore said God unto Him: Is it a great thing for thee to be called My servant, to establish the tribes of Israel, and to bring the dispersions of Israel back? I have set thee for a light of Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for their salvation unto the very ends of the earth.