31. Now if so much authority is shown to have ac-
because they are common and unclean, but either because they are sour or poisonous or prickly.
But we do search for and partake of all those that are sweet and nourishing and the best, gathered either by the sea or on land.
Thus it was that God commanded you through Moses to refrain from everything filthy and wrong and lawless, because in spite of your eating manna in the desert and seeing all the wonderful events which happened to you from God, you made the golden calf and worshipped it.
So the righteous one continually cries out, Foolish sons, there is no faith in you."
Ill. The Two Comings of Christ.
[Caps. 12-18 and 21-30(2) are occupied with a demonstration that all Jewish institutions and ceremonies were intended to be temporary and to point towards their spiritual counterparts in Christianity, and that the Jews wilfully misunderstood them.]
(Justin is speaking) 30(3) "We constantly pray God through Jesus Christ that we may be preserved from the demons, who are alien to the cult of God, and whom we used to worship, so that after turning to God through him we may be blameless.
For we call him a helper and a redeemer before the power of whose name even the demons tremble, and they are daily exorcized and submit in the name of Jesus Christ who was crucified under Pontius Pilate who was governor of Judaea, so that from this fact it is clear to all that his Father gave him great enough authority for the demons to submit to his name and to the divine policy manifested in the suffering which he endured.
31. Now if so much authority is shown to have accompanied and still to be accompanying the divine policy
Yer. 4:22.