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and this, again he teaches in order, saying: “‘Because his soul was delivered to death, and he was reckoned among the lawless, and he bore the sins of many, and because of their sins he was delivered up.’” 3.2.69 For in return for these things, the Father, rewarding him on account of his obedience and 3.2.69 endurance, has granted him the things set forth; for he became “obedient” to the Father “unto death”; wherefore it is declared that he will inherit many, and not before, but after his soul was delivered to death and he was reckoned among the lawless. For because of these things it is said that he will inherit many and will divide the spoils of the strong. 3.2.70 And I think that through these words the resurrection from the dead of the one prophesied is undoubtedly presented. For how else is it possible to conceive of one led as a sheep to the slaughter, and delivered to death for the iniquities of the Jewish people, and reckoned with the lawless and delivered to burial, then being cleansed by the Lord, and seeing light with him, and inheriting many, and distributing spoils to his own? And in another way, concerning his coming to life again after death, David says somewhere, prophesying in the person of Christ: “You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will you let your holy one see corruption,” 3.2.71 and again: “O Lord, you have brought up my soul from Hades, you have saved me from those who go down into the pit,” and again: “You who lift me up from the gates of death, that I may declare all your praises.” 3.2.72 And I think that not even the most utterly ignorant are able to contradict all these things. But nevertheless the conclusion of Isaiah’s prophecy proclaims the good news to the soul that was long barren and destitute of God, or rather the church from the gentiles, in accordance with the theory of what has been said. 3.2.73 For since Christ endured all things for her sake, it is fitting that after the predictions about him, he adds, saying: “Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor; for the children of the desolate one are many more than of her who has a husband. For the Lord has said, Enlarge the place of your tent, and of your courts, pitch them, do not spare; lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes, still spread out to the right and to the left; and your seed will inherit nations.” 3.2.74 But the word proclaims the good news of these things to the church from the gentiles, spread throughout the whole world and extending from the rising of the sun to its setting, presenting this most clearly through “and your seed will inherit nations.” 3.2.75 Since the things concerning the passage require more elaboration, let these things have been sufficiently touched upon by us for the present; and you yourself at your leisure would be able to collect very many things about the subject at hand, and the present treatise of the Evangelical Proof will in due course deliver and interpret each point. 3.2.76 But for now, for the present, concerning the prediction and foreknowledge of the prophets about our Savior, and how he preached the good news of the presence of future good things to all men, what has been said is sufficient, proclaiming beforehand the arrival of a certain prophet and lawgiver of piety like Moses, and his race and tribe and the place from whence he would come, and the time at which he is prophesied to arrive, and his birth, and death, and coming to life again, and his rule over all nations, 3.2.77 all of which things have been shown, and will be shown yet more through what follows, to be fulfilled in our Savior and Lord alone. 3.2.78 But these things have been set forth from the sacred oracles for those who believe them; but to those who disobey the prophetic writings we will respond separately, for the time being making the examination as about a common man and like the rest, so that, whenever he should be revealed as much better by an incomparable superiority and different from all who have been benefactors among men from of old, then we may in due course also discuss the things concerning his more divine nature, showing from clear proofs that he was not of human

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δὲ τοῦτο, πάλιν ἑξῆς διδάσκει φήσας· «ἀνθ' ὧν παρεδόθη εἰς θάνατον ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἀνόμοις ἐλογίσθη, καὶ αὐτὸς ἁμαρτίας πολλῶν ἀνήνεγκεν, καὶ διὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας αὐτῶν παρεδόθη». 3.2.69 ἀντὶ τούτων γὰρ ἀμειβόμενος αὐτὸν ὁ πατὴρ τῆς ὑπακοῆς καὶ τῆς 3.2.69 ὑπομονῆς ἕνεκα δεδώρηται αὐτῷ τὰ ἐκκείμενα· γέγονε γὰρ «ὑπήκοος» τῷ πατρὶ «μέχρι θανάτου»· διὸ καὶ κληρονομήσειν πολλούς, καὶ οὐ πρότερον ἀλλὰ μετὰ τὸ παραδοθῆναι εἰς θάνατον τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἀνόμοις λογισθῆναι, θεσπίζεται. διὰ ταῦτα γὰρ εἴρηται κληρονομήσειν πολλοὺς καὶ τῶν ἰσχυρῶν μερίσειν τὰ σκῦλα. 3.2.70 ἡγοῦμαι δὲ ἀναμφιλόγως τὴν ἐκ νεκρῶν ἀνάστασιν τοῦ προφητευομένου διὰ τούτων παρίστασθαι. πῶς γὰρ ἄλλως ἐπινοῆσαι δυνατὸν ὡς πρόβατον ἐπὶ σφαγὴν ἀχθέντα, καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἀνομιῶν τοῦ Ἰουδαίων, λαοῦ θανάτῳ παραδοθέντα, καὶ μετὰ ἀνόμων λογισθέντα ταφῇ τε παραδοθέντα, εἶτα καθαριζόμενον ὑπὸ τοῦ κυρίου, καὶ φῶς παρ' αὐτῷ ὀψόμενον, καὶ κληρονομοῦντα πολλούς, καὶ σκῦλα τοῖς οἰκείοις διανέμοντα; καὶ ἄλλως δὲ περὶ τῆς μετὰ τὸν θάνατον ἀναβιώσεως αὐτοῦ λέγει που προφητεύων ἐκ προσώπου τοῦ Χριστοῦ ὁ ∆αβίδ· «οὐκ ἐγκαταλείψεις τὴν ψυχήν μου εἰς ᾅδην, οὐδὲ δώσεις τὸν ὅσιόν σου ἰδεῖν διαφθοράν», 3.2.71 καὶ πάλιν· «κύριε, ἀνήγαγες ἐξ ᾅδου τὴν ψυχήν μου, ἔσωσάς με ἀπὸ τῶν καταβαινόντων εἰς λάκκον», καὶ πάλιν· «ὁ ὑψῶν με ἐκ τῶν πυλῶν τοῦ θανάτου, ὅπως ἂν ἐξαγγείλω πάσας τὰς αἰνέσεις σου». 3.2.72 Τούτοις δὲ πᾶσιν ἀντιβλέψαι δύνασθαι οὐδὲ τοὺς σφόδρα ἀγνωμονεστάτους ἡγοῦμαι. πλὴν ἀλλὰ τῆς Ἡσαΐου προφητείας τὸ συμπέρασμα τὴν πάλαι στεῖραν καὶ ἔρημον θεοῦ ψυχὴν ἢ καὶ μᾶλλον τὴν ἐξ ἐθνῶν ἐκκλησίαν εὐαγγελίζεται, ἀκολούθως τῇ θεωρίᾳ τῶν εἰρημένων. 3.2.73 ἐπειδὴ γὰρ τὰ πάντα δι' αὐτὴν ὁ Χριστὸς ὑπέμεινεν, εἰκότως μετὰ τὰς περὶ αὐτοῦ προρρήσεις ἐπιφέρει λέγων· «εὐφράνθητι, στεῖρα ἡ οὐ τίκτουσα, ῥῆξον καὶ βόησον, ἡ οὐκ ὠδίνουσα, ὅτι πολλὰ τὰ τέκνα τῆς ἐρήμου μᾶλλον ἢ τῆς ἐχούσης τὸν ἄνδρα· εἶπεν γὰρ κύριος, πλάτυνον τὸν τόπον τῆς σκηνῆς σου καὶ τῶν αὐλαιῶν σου, πῆξον, μὴ φείσῃ· πλάτυνον τὰ σχοινίσματά σου, καὶ τοὺς πασσάλους σου κατίσχυσον, ἔτι εἰς τὰ δεξιὰ καὶ εἰς τὰ ἀριστερὰ ἐκπέτασον· καὶ τὸ σπέρμα σου ἔθνη κληρονομήσει». 3.2.74 ταῦτα δὲ τὴν ἐξ ἐθνῶν ἐκκλησίαν καθ' ὅλης τῆς οἰκουμένης ἐξηπλωμένην καὶ ἀπὸ ἀνατολῶν ἡλίου μέχρι δυσμῶν παρατείνουσαν ὁ λόγος εὐαγγελίζεται, σαφέστατα τοῦτο παριστὰς διὰ τοῦ «καὶ τὸ σπέρμα σου ἔθνη κληρονομήσει». 3.2.75 Πλείονος δὲ ἐξεργασίας δεομένων τῶν κατὰ τὸν τόπον, ἀρ κούντως ἐπὶ τοῦ παρόντος ταῦθ' ἡμῖν ἐπιτετμήσθω· πλεῖστα δὲ ἂν καὶ αὐτὸς ἐπὶ σχολῆς ἀναλέξασθαι δύναιο περὶ τοῦ προκειμένου, καὶ ἡ παροῦσα δὲ πραγματεία τῆς Εὐαγγελικῆς Ἀποδείξεως κατὰ καιρὸν ἕκαστα παραδώσεταί τε καὶ ἑρμηνεύσει. 3.2.76 τέως δὲ ἐπὶ τοῦ παρόντος τῆς τῶν προφητῶν περὶ τῆς τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν προρρήσεώς τε καὶ προγνώσεως, καὶ ὡς πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις τὴν τῶν μελλόντων ἀγαθῶν παρουσίαν εὐηγγελίζετο, ἱκανῶς ἔχει τὰ εἰρημένα, προαναφωνοῦντα προφήτου τινὸς ἄφιξιν καὶ εὐσέβειας νομοθέτου Μωσεῖ παραπλησίου, γένος τε αὐτοῦ καὶ φυλὴν καὶ τόπον ὅθεν προελεύσεται, χρόνον τε καθ' ὃν ἥξειν προφητεύεται, καὶ γένεσιν, καὶ τελευτήν, καὶ ἀναβίωσιν, καὶ ἀρχὴν τὴν κατὰ πάντων ἐθνῶν, 3.2.77 ἃ δὴ πάντα παρέστη καὶ ἔτι μᾶλλον διὰ τῶν ἑξῆς παραστήσεται ἐπὶ μόνον τὸν σωτῆρα καὶ κύριον ἡμῶν συμπεπερασμένα. 3.2.78 Ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν ἀπὸ τῶν ἱερῶν λογίων τοῖς πιστεύουσιν αὐτοῖς παρατέθειται· τοῖς δ' ἀπειθοῦσι ταῖς προφητικαῖς γραφαῖς ἰδίως ἀπαντήσομεν, ὡς περὶ ἀνδρὸς κοινοῦ καὶ τοῖς λοιποῖς παραπλησίου τέως τὴν ἐξέτασιν ποιούμενοι, ἵνα, ὁπόταν πάντων τῶν ἐξ αἰῶνος βοηθέντων ἐν ἀνθρώποις πολὺ κρείττων ἀσυγκρίτῳ ὑπεροχῇ καὶ διαφέρων ἀναφανῇ, τὸ τηνικάδε καὶ τὰ περὶ τῆς θειοτέρας αὐτοῦ φύσεως κατὰ καιρὸν διαλάβωμεν, ἐξ ἐναργῶν τῶν ἀποδείξεων παριστῶντες ὡς οὐκ ἀνθρωπείας ἄρα ἦν