67. Trypho answered, ""The passage does not say, Behold,
born from a Virgin and that a prophecy had been made through Isaiah that he would be born through a Virgin.
[Here follow citations of Isa. 7:10-17 and 8:4.] And I added, "It is clear to everybody that no one of the physical descendants of Abraham was ever born of a virgin or is recorded as so born except this our Christ."
67.
Trypho answered, ""The passage does not say, Behold, the virgin shall conceive in the womb and shall bring forth a son}, but Behold, the young woman shall conceive in the womb and shall bring forth a son, and so on, as you said.
The whole prophecy is to be applied to Hezekiah, and it is demonstrable that the events happened to Hezekiah according to the prophecy.
And in the legends of those who are called the Greeks it is related that Perseus was born of Danae while she was a virgin after he who is called Zeus among them had flowed into her in the form of a stream of gold. You ought to be ashamed of retailing the same tales as the Greeks, and should rather say that this Jesus was born as a human being from human beings, and, if you are demonstrating from the Scriptures that he is the Christ, you should say that he earned the appointment as Christ by his perfect behaviour in obedience to the law, but you should not dare to tell fairy stories, in case you are convicted of the same futility as that of the Greeks."
I replied to this, "Trypho, I want to convince you and everybody I can that even if you laugh at me or even indulge in worse mockery you will not move me from my intended line of argument, but I will continue to produce proofs of my assertion with testimony from the Scriptures from the very arguments which you think you are bringing forward to refute me.
You are not acting either consistently or honestly when you try to demolish a position about which Isa. 7:14.