Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/An Answer to the Jews

by Tertullian

Contents

• Occasion of Writing. Relative Position of Jews and Gentiles Illustrated
• The Law Anterior to Moses
• Of Circumcision and the Supercession of the Old Law
• Of the Observance of the Sabbath
• Of Sacrifices
• Of the Abolition and the Abolisher of the Old Law
• The Question Whether Christ Be Come Taken Up
• Of the Times of Christ's Birth and Passion, and of Jerusalem's Destruction
• Of the Prophecies of the Birth and Achievements of Christ
• Concerning the Passion of Christ, and Its Old Testament Predictions and Adumbrations
• Further Proofs, from Ezekiel. Summary of the Prophetic Argument Thus Far
• Further Proofs from the Calling of the Gentiles
• Argument from the Destruction of Jerusalem and Desolation of Judea
• Conclusion. Clue to the Error of the Jews