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Chapter LI.—It is proved that this
prophecy has been fulfilled.
And when I ceased, Trypho said, “All
the words of the prophecy you repeat, sir, are ambiguous,
and have no force in proving what you wish to prove.” Then
I answered, “If the prophets
had not ceased, so that there were no more in your nation, Trypho, after
this John, it is evident that what I say in reference to Jesus Christ
might be regarded perhaps as ambiguous. But if John came first calling on
men to repent, and Christ, while [John] still sat by the river Jordan,
having come, put an end to his prophesying and baptizing, and preached
also Himself, saying that the kingdom of heaven is at hand, and that He
must suffer many things from the Scribes and Pharisees, and be crucified,
and on the third day rise again, and would appear again in Jerusalem, and
would again eat and drink with His disciples; and foretold that in the
interval between His [first and second] advent, as I previously
said,2109
priests and false prophets would arise in His name, which things
do actually appear; then how can they be ambiguous, when you may be
persuaded by the facts? Moreover, He referred to the fact that there
would be no longer in your nation any prophet, and to the fact that men
recognised how that the New Testament, which God formerly announced [His
intention of] promulgating, was then present, i.e., Christ Himself; and
in the following terms: ‘The law and the prophets were until John
the Baptist; from that time the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and
the violent take it by force. And if you can2110
receive it, he is Elijah, who was to come. He that hath ears to hear, let
him hear.’2111
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