Let all of us Gentiles come together and glorify God, because He has looked down upon us; let us glorify Him by the King of glory, by the Lord of hosts. For He hath taken pleasure even in the nations, and He receives the sacrifices more gladly from us than from you. What account should I, to whom God has borne testimony, then take of circumcision? What need of that other baptism to one who has been baptized by the Holy Spirit?
I think that by these arguments I shall be able to persuade even those who are of slight intelligence. For the words have not been fitted together by me, nor adorned by human art, but they were sung by David, proclaimed as good news by Isaiah, preached by Zechariah, written down by Moses. You recognize them, Trypho? They are laid up in your scriptures, or rather not in yours but in ours, for we obey them, but you, when you read, do not understand their sense.
Be not therefore vexed, nor reproach us with the uncircumcision of our body, which God Himself formed, nor think it shocking that we drink hot water on the sabbaths; since even God has ordered the governance of the world on this and on all other days alike, and the high priests have been commanded to make the offerings as on the other days so also on this, and such numbers of righteous men, although they practised none of these ordinances, have received testimony from God Himself.