To this Trypho replied: I told you, Sir, that you do your utmost to be careful by keeping close to Scripture. But tell me, do you acknowledge of a truth that this place Jerusalem will be rebuilt, and expect that your people will be gathered together and rejoice with Christ, together with the patriarchs and the prophets, and the saints of our race, or even of them who became proselytes, before your Christ came, or did you concede acknowledgment of this, that you might appear to overcome us completely in our discussion?
I said: I am not such a poor creature, Trypho, as to say other than I think. I have acknowledged to you earlier that I and many others do hold this opinion, even as you also know well that this is to take place. But I also informed you that even many Christians of pure and godly mind do not accept it.
For I made it clear to you that those who are Christians in name, but in reality are godless and impious heretics, teach in all respects what is blasphemous and godless and foolish. But that you may know that I do not say this before you alone, I will make, so far as in me lies, a collection of all the speeches made by us, in which I will write that I acknowledge whatever I am acknowledging to you. For it is not men, or the doctrines of men, that I choose to follow, but God and the doctrines that come from Him.
For even if you yourselves have ever met with some so-called Christians, who yet do not acknowledge this, but even dare to blaspheme the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, who say too that there is no resurrection of the dead, but that their souls ascend to heaven at the very moment of their death — do not suppose that they are Christians, any more than if one examined the matter rightly he would acknowledge as Jews those who are Sadduces, or similar sects of Genistae, and Meristae, and Galileans, and Hellenians, and Pharisees and Baptists (pray, do not be vexed with me as I say all I think), but (would say) that though called Jews and children of Abraham, and acknowledging God with their lips, as God Himself has cried aloud, yet their heart is far from Him.Isaiah 29:13
But I, and all other entirely orthodox Christians, know that there will be a resurrection of the flesh, and also a thousand years in a Jerusalem built up and adorned and enlarged, as the prophets Ezekiel and Isaiah, and all the rest, acknowledge.