You indeed suppose that this was said of the Stranger and the Proselytes. But in reality they were said of us who have been enlightened through Jesus. For surely Christ could have borne witness also to them, but, as He Himself said, you now become doubly sons of hell. Therefore it is not with reference to them that the sayings of the prophets were spoken, but with reference to us, concerning whom the word says: I will bring blind (men) on a way that they have not known, and they shall tread paths which they never knew. And I am witness, saith the Lord God, and my Servant whom I have chosen.
To whom therefore does the Christ bear witness? Plainly to them that have believed. But the proselytes not only do not believe, but utter blasphemies against His name doubly more than you, and wish both to kill and to torment us who believe on Him. For they are eager to become like you in everything.
And again He cries aloud elsewhere: I the Lord called thee in righteousness, and will lay hold of thy hand and will strengthen thee, and I will set thee for a covenant of the nation, for a light of Gentiles, to open the eyes of the blind, to bring them that are bound out of their chains. For these things also, Gentlemen, have been spoken with reference to the Christ, and concerning the Gentiles that have been enlightened. Or will you say again: with reference to the Law and the proselytes He says them?
Then some of those who had come on the second day cried out as though in a theatre: What then? Does He not say them with reference to the Law and those that have been enlightened by it? Now these are the proselytes.
Nay, I said, turning and looking at Trypho. For if the Law had power to enlighten the Gentiles and all them that possess it, what need were there of a new covenant? But since God proclaimed beforehand that He would send a new covenant, and an everlasting Law, and ordinance, we must not understand the old Law and its proselytes, but Christ and His proselytes, us Gentiles, whom He enlightened, as He says somewhere: Thus saith the Lord: In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee. And I have given thee for a covenant of Gentiles, to establish the earth, and to take desolate places as thy inheritance.Isaiah 49:8
What then is the inheritance of Christ? Is it not the Gentiles? What is the covenant of God? Is it not Christ? As He says also in another place: My Son art thou; I to-day have begotten thee. Ask of me, and I will give thee Gentiles as Thy inheritance, and thy possession the very limits of the earth.