Against Faustus
Book XVI
Chapter 18
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Against Faustus
Translated by Richard Stothert
Book XVI
Chapter 18
What other reason has your heretical folly to give for thinking that there is no prophecy of Christ in the words, “I will raise lip unto them a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee”? Your showing Christ to be unlike Moses is no reason; for we can show that in other respects He is like. How can you object to Christ’s being called a prophet, since He condescended to be a man, and actually foretold many future events? What is a prophet, but one who predicts events beyond human foresight? So Christ says of Himself: “A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country.” But, turning from you, since you have already acknowledged that your profession of Christianity obliges you to believe the Gospel, I address myself to the Jew, who enjoys the poor privilege of liberty from the yoke of Christ, and who therefore thinks it allowable to say: Your Christ spoke falsely; Moses wrote nothing of him.
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