Further, I do not believe your teachers when they do not agree with the interpretations by the Seventy elders at the court of Ptolemy King of Egypt, but endeavour to give interpretations themselves.
And I would have you know that they have completely removed from the interpretations which were made by the elders at the court of Ptolemy many passages by which this very One who was crucified is plainly proved to have been proclaimed as God, and man, and crucified, and dying. But these passages, since I am aware that all who are of your nation deny them, I do not adduce in such enquiries as we are now making, but I come to discuss those which are still acknowledged among you.
For you recognize all those that I have brought forward to you, save that you made a contradiction about the text: Behold, the virgin shall be with child, saying that it runs: ‘Behold, the young woman shall be with child.’ And I promised that I would prove that it was spoken not of Hezekiah, as you were taught, but of this my Christ. So now I come to the proof.
Trypho said: We ask that you would first tell us some of the passages which you say have been completely left out.