13. I.e., Elijah lost nothing by the transmission of his spirit to John.Catholic
st. justin martyr in Moses, while he was on earth, and communicated it to Joshua, so was he able to transfer the spirit from Elijah to John, in order that, as Christ appeared without glory at his first advent, so likewise the first advent of the spirit, which ever remained in the same state of purity in Elijah,13 might be perceived to be without glory, as was Christ's first advent.
8. "The Lord is said to fight against Amalek with hidden hand, and you will not deny that Amalek has fallen. But, if it is affirmed that war will be waged against Amalek only at the glorious coming of Christ, how would that fulfill the Scriptural quotation, God fights Amalek with hidden hand? 14 You can see, therefore, that the hidden power of God was in the crucified
Christ, before whom even the demons and, in short, all the powers and authorities of the earth tremble."15 c h a p t e r 50 And Trypho said, "You seem to me to be ready to answer any of my questions, thanks to your extensive exchange in debates with many persons on every possible topic. Tell me, then, first of all, how can you prove that there is another God besides the Creator of the world, and then show that he condescended to be born of a virgin."
2. "Allow me first," I requested, "to quote some passages from the prophet Isaiah concerning John the Baptist, who was also a prophet and the herald of our Lord Jesus Christ."
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"Go ahead," said he.
3. "Here is what Isaiah predicted," I went on, "concerning John as forerunner: And Hezekiah said to Isaiah: The word of the Lord, which he has spoken, is good: only let there be peace and truth in my days.16 And: Comfort the people; speak, you priests, to the heart of Jerusalem and comfort her, because her humiliation is completed. Her iniquity is forgiven, for she has received from the hand of the Lord double for all her sins. A voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked
13. I.e., Elijah lost nothing by the transmission of his spirit to John.
14. Ex 17.16. See Smit Sibinga, 43–46.
15. See Eph 1.21.
16. Is 39.8.
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