These who justify themselves and say they are children of Abraham will desire to inherit along with us even a little place, as the Holy Spirit cries aloud by Isaiah, speaking as follows in their person:
Return from Heaven and see, from Thy holy house and Thy glory. Where is then Thy zeal and Thy might? Where is the abundance of Thy mercy, because Thou didst bear with us, O Lord? For Thou art our Father, because Abraham knew us not, and Israel did not recognize us. But Thou, O Lord our Father, deliver us; from the beginning is Thy name upon us. Why didst Thou lead us astray, O Lord, from Thy way, and didst harden our heart, that we should not fear Thee?
Return because of Thy servants, because of the tribes of Thine inheritance, that we may inherit a little of Thy holy mountain. We became as of old, when Thou didst not rule over us, nor was Thy name called upon us. If thou openest the heaven, trembling will seize the mountains at Thee, and they will melt as wax melts at fire; and fire will burn up Thy adversaries, and Thy name will be manifest among Thy adversaries; at Thy presence shall nations be confounded.
When Thou doest Thy glorious deeds, trembling will seize the mountains at Thee. Never did we hear, nor did our eyes see, any God save Thee and Thy works. He will show mercy to them that repent. He shall meet them that do the right, and they shall remember Thy ways. Behold, Thou wast angry, and we sinned. Therefore were we all led astray and became unclean, and all our righteousness as the rags of a woman in her separation, and we fell off as leaves because of our iniquities; so shall the wind carry us away.
And there is none that calleth upon Thy name, and that remembereth to lay hold on Thee, because Thou didst turn Thy face away from us, and didst deliver us up because of our sins. And now return, O Lord, because we are all Thy people. The city of Thy sanctuary has become desert, Sion become as a desert, Jerusalem for a curse. The House, our Sanctuary, and the Glory, over which our fathers uttered blessings, has become burnt with fire, and all its glorious customs have fallen with it. And at these things Thou hast waited, O Lord, and kept silence, and hast humbled us exceedingly.
Trypho said: Do you indeed intend to say that none of us shall inherit anything in the holy mountain of God?