{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/001/0010485.htm","path":"chr/ecf/001/0010485.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/001/0010485.htm","text":"\u201cNow, sirs,\u201d I said, \u201cit is possible for us to show how the eighth day possessed a certain mysterious import, which the seventh day did not possess, and which was promulgated by God through these rites. But lest I appear now to diverge to other subjects, understand what I say: the blood of that circumcision is obsolete, and we trust in the blood of salvation; there is now another covenant, and another law has gone forth from Zion. Jesus Christ circumcises all who will\u2014as was declared above \u2014with knives of stone; 2006 that they may be a righteous nation, a people keeping faith, holding to the truth, and maintaining peace. Come then with me, all who fear God, who wish to see the good of Jerusalem. Come, let us go to the light of the Lord; for He has liberated His people, the house of Jacob. Come, all nations; let us gather ourselves together at Jerusalem, no longer plagued by war for the sins of her people. \u2018For I was manifest to them that sought Me not; I was found of them that asked not for Me;\u2019 2007 He exclaims by Isaiah: \u2018I said, Behold Me, unto nations which were not called by My name. I have spread out My hands all the day unto a disobedient and gainsaying people, which walked in a way that was not good, but after their own sins. It is a people that provoketh Me to my face.\u2019 2008\nJosh. v. 2; Isa. 26:2, 3.\n206:2007 206:2008","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol I: JUSTIN MARTYR: Chapter XXIV.\u2014The Christians\u2019...","type":"page"}