In the same way some of you dare to expound the prophecy that says: Lift up, O rulers, your gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting gates, that the king of glory may come in, as having been spoken of Hezekiah, and others as of Solomon. But it is not possible to prove that it has been spoken either of the one or of the other, or in fact of any who was called your king, but only of our Christ, who appeared without form and without honour, as Isaiah said, and David, and all the Scriptures; who is Lord of hosts because of the will of the Father who gave (them) to Him; who also rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven, as also the Psalm and the other Scriptures declared, and proclaimed Him Lord of Hosts. Of this you can easily be now convinced by what comes under your very eyes — if you so will.
For when exorcised by the name of this very One who is the Son of God and first-born of every creature, and was born by a virgin, and became man liable to suffering, and was crucified in the time of Pontius Pilate by your people, and died, and rose from the dead, and ascended into heaven, every demon is overcome and subdued.
But if you exorcise by any name of persons born among you, whether kings, or righteous men, or prophets, or patriarchs, not one of the demons will be made subject to you. Yet if any of you were to exorcise by the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, it will perhaps be made subject. Now however, I said, those of your race who practise adjuration use art in their exorcising like the heathen, and use fumigations and (magic) knots.
But that they are also angels and powers, whom the word of the prophecy that was given by David (bade) lift up the gates, that He who rose from the dead, the Lord of hosts, should enter in, according to the will of the Father, even Jesus Christ, the word of David has likewise proved, which I will mention also again because of these who were not present with us yesterday. For it is for their sake that I say very briefly much of what was already said yesterday.
Now if I say this to you, even though I often repeat myself, I know I do not speak foolishly. For it is absurd to see the sun, and the moon, and the other stars, ever taking the same course, and the same changes of hours; and also (to see) the mathematician, if asked how much twice two are, though he has often said four, not ceasing to say again that they are four, and other things likewise which are acknowledged in the same fashion; and then to find him who draws his discourses from the Scriptures of the prophets not citing always the same Scriptures, but considering that he himself can produce and say something better than Scripture.
Now this is the saying by which I signified that God made it clear that there are angels and powers in heaven: Praise the Lord from the heaven; praise Him in the highest; praise Him all ye His angels; praise Him all ye His hosts.
Then one of those who had come with them on the second day, called Mnaseas, said: We also are glad that you undertake to repeat your words again for us.
I said: Hear, my Friends, the passage of Scripture that has led me to do this. Jesus bade us love even our enemies, as also Isaiah had proclaimed at some length, (foretelling) also the mystery of the new birth both of us, and of all who look forward to the manifestation of Christ in Jerusalem, and endeavour to please Him by their lives.
Now these are the words spoken by Isaiah: Hear ye the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at His word. Say ye, our brethren, to them that hate and detest you, that the name of the Lord has been glorified. He hath appeared in their gladness, and those others shall be ashamed. A voice of weeping from the city, a voice of the people, a voice of the Lord rendering recompense to the proud. Before she which travaileth hath borne, and before the pains of travail come, she hath brought forth a male child.
Who ever heard of such, and who hath ever seen thus — if even the earth travailed in one day, if it were even to bring forth a nation in one moment — that Zion travailed and brought forth her children? But I gave this expectation even to one that beareth not, said the Lord. Behold I have made her that beareth and her that is barren, saith the Lord. Be glad, O Jerusalem, and come in festal crowds, all ye who love her. Rejoice, all ye that mourn over her, that ye may suck, and be filled from the breasts of her consolation, that ye may suck up with relish from the entrance of His glory.Isaiah 66:5-11