I will also utter the words which show that God divided out the nations. They are these: Ask thy father, and he shall relate to thee; thy elders, and they shall tell thee. When the Most High divided out nations, when He separated Adam’s sons. He set the bounds of nations according to the numbers of the sons of Israel. And His people Jacob became the Lord’s share, Israel the line of His inheritance. And on saying this I added that the Seventy interpreted thus He set the bounds of nations according to the number of the angels of God. But since, once more, my argument is not at all weakened by this, I used your interpretation.
Further, if you will confess the truth, you yourselves cannot deny that we are more faithful than you in relation to God. For we, having been called of God by means of the mystery of the cross, which is so despised and full of shame — and to our confession and obedience and piety have punishments, even unto death, been awarded by the demons and the host of the devil, through the service rendered to them by you — (we, I say) endure all things lest we should deny Christ even in word. For by Him were we called unto salvation which was prepared beforehand of the Father.
Yet you were redeemed from Egypt with a high arm and a visitation of great glory, when the sea was cut asunder for you and a dry path made through it, in which He slew them who were pursuing you with very great power and splendid chariots, by flooding them with the sea that had been made passable for your sake. And for you also did the pillar of light shine, that even beyond all other people in the world ye should be able to use a light all your own that fadeth not nor setteth. And to you did He rain down bread for your food, that belonged to angels of heaven, even the manna, that you should not go seeking for the means of preparing bread. And the water at Marah was sweetened.
And there was given a sign of Him who was to be crucified, both in the case of the serpents that bit you, as I have already said — God in His forethought granting you beforehand all these mysteries ere they were fulfilled, towards whom you stand convicted of being always ungrateful — and by the type of the stretching out of Moses’ hands, and by him who was surnamed Jesus (Joshua) when the Amalekites were attacking. Now concerning these God said that the fact should be recorded, charging also that the name of Jesus (Joshua) should be committed to your hearing, saying that this was he who was to wipe out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
For that the remembrance of Amalek still abides after the son of Nun, is plain. But that by Jesus who was crucified (of whom even those figures were predictions of all the evil that should be done to Him) the demons were to be utterly destroyed, and were to fear His name, and that all the principalities and kingdoms were likewise to cower before Him, and that out of every race of men they who believe on Him would be shown to be God-fearing and peaceable, God makes plain, and the facts, Trypho, already related by me declare.
And so great a number of landrails was given you when lusted after flesh to eat that they could not be numbered. And for you water sprang forth from a rock,Numbers 20:11 and a cloud was following for shade from the heat, and protection from the frost, yielding tidings of the fashion and promise of another new heaven. And the thongs of your sandals were not broken, nor did the sandals themselves grow old, nor were your clothes worn thin, but then those of your young people grew along with them.