Trypho said: You have shown this, my Friend, with much force and at some length. Lastly then prove also that He submitted to be born man by the Virgin according to the purpose of His Father, and to be crucified and to die. But also show that He afterwards rose and ascended into heaven.
I answered: This also has been already proved by me, Gentlemen, in the words of the prophecies already related, which for your sakes I will again recall to memory and explain, and so endeavour to lead you to agree with me about it. That word therefore which Isaiah said: Who shall declare His generation? Because His life is taken from the earth Isaiah 53:8 — does it not seem to you that He who is said by God to have been delivered unto death because of the iniquities of the people did not have His origin from men? About whose blood Moses also, as I said before, speaking in a parable, said, He washed His robe in the blood of the grape, as though He had come into existence not of human seed but of the will of God.
And David’s words: In the brightness of Thy saints, from the womb before the morning star did I beget Thee. The Lord sware and will not repent: Thou art priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek, do they not signify to you that from of old the God and Father of the universe was about to beget Him, and this by means of a human womb?
And elsewhere He says, in the same words already adduced, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; the sceptre of Thy kingdom is a sceptre of equity. Thou lovedst righteousness and hatedst iniquity; therefore God, Thy God, anointed Thee with oil of gladness more than Thy companions, (with) myrrh and liquid myrrh and cassia from Thy garments, from ivory palaces, out of which they made Thee glad. Kings’ daughters were in Thine honour; the Queen stood by on Thy right hand, clothed in vesture shot with gold, (and) of many colours. Hear, O daughter, and see, and incline thine ear, and forget thy people and the house of thy father; and the King shall desire thy beauty; for He is thy Lord and thou shalt worship Him.Psalms 45:6-11
That then testimony has been borne to Him by Him who made all this, viz: that He is both to be worshipped, and is God and Christ, these words clearly signify. And they likewise proclaim that them that believe on Him, as men of one soul and one synagogue and one church, the word of God addressed as Daughter, namely the Church which came into being from His name and shares His name, for we are all called Christians. And they teach us to forget even the old customs of our fathers, saying thus: Hear, O daughter, and see, and incline thine ear, and forget thy people and the house of thy father; and the King shall desire thy beauty, because He is thy Lord, and thou shalt worship Him.