Wherefore Jacob also, as I have already said, being himself also a type of Christ, married also the two bond-maidens of his two free wives, and of them he had sons, to indicate beforehand that Christ should receive to Himself all the posterity even of Canaan that are among the race of Japhet as well as them that are free, and should consider them children and co-heirs. And these we are, though you cannot understand it, because you cannot drink of the living fountain of God, but rather of the broken cisterns that cannot hold water, as the Scripture saith.Jeremiah 2:13
Now they are broken cisterns that hold not water which your own teachers dug for you, as the Scripture expressly says, teaching for doctrines, commandments of men.Isaiah 29:13 And besides all this they delude both themselves and you, supposing that assuredly to all who are of the carnal seed of Abraham, though they be sinners and unbelievers and disobedient towards God, the everlasting kingdom will be given, ideas which the Scriptures prove have no reality.
For surely Isaiah would not have spoken as follows: And except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had become as Sodom and Gomorrah,Isaiah 1:9 nor Ezekiel: Even though Noah and Jacob and Daniel should demand sons or daughters, they shall not be given them. For neither father for son, nor son for father, but each shall perish by his own sin, and each shall be saved by his own practice of righteousness. And again Isaiah: They shall see the limbs of the transgressors. Their worm shall be brought to an end, and their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be a spectacle for all flesh.
And our Lord would not have said, in accordance with the will of the Father and the Master of the universe, who sent Him: They shall come from West and East, and shall recline at table with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out even into the outer darkness.
It is not by the fault of God that they who are foreknown as to become unrighteous, whether they be angels or men, do become worthless. But each by his own fault is such as he will hereafter be shown to be. This I have already proved in my earlier statements.