48. Cf. On 22.18 and sections 9 and 12. (continued)
TRACTATE 9 207 what else do they acknowledge than that they are disinherited?
14. Therefore, what I was saying, brothers, that prophecy pertains to all the nations (for I want to show another meaning in what was said, "They held two or three measures"). Prophecy, I say, pertains to all the nations, and we have just related that this was shown in Adam "who is a figure of him who was to come."^^
(2) But who would not know that all the nations have risen up from him and that by the four letters in his name the four parts of the world are designated in their Greek names? For if east, west, north, south were said in Greek, as Holy Scripture mentions them in many places, you find the name Adam in the first letters of the words; for in Greek the above-mentioned parts of the world are called anatole, dysis, drktos, mesembna.^'^ If you were to write these four nouns as if [they were] four verses, one under the other, Adam is read in their first letters.
(3) This has been represented in Noe because of the ark in which were all living things which signified all the nations. This has been represented in Abraham to whom it was quite clearly said, "In your seed all the nations shall be blessed." This has been represented in David from whose Psalms, not to mention other places, we have just sung, "Arise, O God, judge the earth, for you inherit among all the nations." For to what God is it said, "Arise," except to him who was asleep. "Arise, O God, judge the earth." [It is] as if it were said, "You have been asleep, judged by the earth; arise that you may judge the earth." And to what end does that prophecy pertain, "for you inherit among all the nations"? 15. Now in the fifth era, in the fifth water-jar, as it were, David saw both that a stone hewn from a mountain without hands had broken all the kingdoms of the earth and that the stone had grown and become a great mountain so as to fill all the face of the earth. What is clearer, my brothers? A stone
46. Cf. Rom 5.14 and section 10. 47. But in Hebrew Adam has only three letters. Cf. Comeau, 125. 48. Cf. On 22.18 and sections 9 and 12. 49. Cf. Ps 81.8 and section 13. 50. Cf. Dn 2.34-35 and Tractate 4.4.