Now, Trypho, I said, if you had known who this is, who sometimes is called Angel of great counsel, and Man by Ezekiel, and as Son of Man by Daniel, and Child by Isaiah, and Christ and God to be adored by David, and Christ and Stone by many, and Wisdom by Solomon, and Joseph and Judah and Star by Moses, and Day-Spring by Zechariah, and liable to suffering and Jacob and Israel again by Isaiah, and Rod and Flower and Cornerstone and Son of God, you would not utter blasphemies against Him, when He has already come, and been born, and has suffered, and has ascended into heaven. Who shall also come again, and then shall your twelve tribes wail.Zechariah 12:12
Since if ye had understood what has been spoken by the prophets, you would not deny that He is God, Son of the only and Unbegotten and Ineffable God. For thus it is said somewhere even by Moses in Exodus: Now the Lord spake unto Moses, and said unto him: I am the Lord, and I appeared unto Abraham and, Isaac and Jacob, I their God, and my Name I did not make known to them, and I established my covenant with them.Exodus 6:2-4
And thus does he say again: A man was wrestling with Jacob, and He affirms that he is God. For he states that Jacob said, I saw God face to face, and my life was saved. And he wrote down that he also called the place where He wrestled with him, and appeared to him, and blessed him, The Vision of God.
And in like fashion to Abraham, as Moses says, did God appear at the oak of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent midday. Then he continues thus: And he looked up and saw with his eyes, and, behold, three men stood over against him. And when he saw them he ran to meet them. And a little after one of them promises Abraham a son: Why is it that Sarah laughed saying; Shall I then bear a child? Nay, I am old. Does a word lack power with God? At this time will I return in due season, and Sarah shall have a son. And they depart from Abraham.
And he speaks about them again as follows, But the men rose up from thence and looked towards the face of Sodom. Then He who was and is says thus again unto Abraham: I will not hide from my servant Abraham what I am about to do. And the succeeding statements from the books of Moses, and already explained by me, I again repeated. And by these, I said, it has already been proved that He who was seen of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and the other patriarchs was appointed by the Father and Lord, and was ministering to His will, and is termed God.
And I added, although I had not included it in my earlier remarks: In the same way also, when the people lusted after flesh to eat, and when Moses disbelieved Him who is there called Angel, who was promising that God would give (it) them unto satiety, He Himself, being both God and Angel sent from the Father, is shown to have said and done all this. For the Scripture continues in these terms: And the Lord saith unto Moses: shall not the hand of the Lord suffice? Now shalt thou know, whether my word shall take effect for thee or not. And again He thus says elsewhere: Now the Lord said unto me: Thou shalt not pass over this Jordan. The Lord thy God, who goeth before thy face, He shall destroy the nations.