For when Daniel says that He who receiveth the everlasting kingdom is as a son of man, does he not hint at this very thing? For saying as a son of man means one that has become man and appears as such. But it does not represent him as one who is of human seed. And his saying a stone cut without hands proclaims the same thing in a mystery. For saying that it has been cut out without hands means that it is not a human work, but of the will of God, the Father of the universe, who brought it forward.
And Isaiah’s statement — who shall declare his generation?Isaiah 53:8 — represented him as being of origin that cannot be declared. For no one who is mere man of men is of such an origin. And is not Moses’ saying, that he washes his robe in the blood of the grape, what I have already often said unto you He has prophesied by figure, namely that he foretold He had blood, but not from men, even as it was not man that engendered the blood of the grape, but God?
And did not Isaiah, in saying that He is the Angel of great counsel, proclaim beforehand that He has been made the teacher of these things which He taught after He had come? For the great counsels that the Father took for all men that were and shall be well-pleasing to Him, and also equally for those men and angels that depart from His will, He alone taught without concealment, saying:
They shall come from the east and west, 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 into the outer darkness.
And: Many shall say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, did we not in Thy name eat and drink and prophesy and cast out demons? And I shall say to them: Depart from me And in other words, with which He is about to condemn them that are unworthy to be saved, He says He will speak: Depart into the outer darkness, which the Father prepared for Satan and his angels.
And again He says in different words: I give you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions and centipedes, and on every form of the enemy’s power. So now we who believe on Jesus our Lord who was crucified under Pontius Pilate exorcise all the demons and evil spirits, and thus hold them subject to us. For if Christ was covertly preached by the prophets as about to be liable to suffering, and afterwards to be lord of all, yet He could not be so understood by any, until He Himself persuaded the Apostles that these things were plainly proclaimed in the Scriptures.
For He cried before He was crucified: The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the Scribes and Pharisees, and be crucified and rise the third day. And David proclaimed that He would be born of the womb before sun and moon according to the will of the Father, and declared that He, being Christ, was the Mighty God, and was to be worshipped.