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An Answer to the Jews

Tertullian · c. 197 AD

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Ante-Nicene

A treatise arguing from Old Testament prophecy that the Messiah has come, the old covenant has been superseded, and the Gentiles are now the true people of God.

Table of Contents

1Occasion of Writing. Relative Position of Jews and Gentiles Illustrated2The Law Anterior to Moses3Of Circumcision and the Supercession of the Old Law4Of the Observance of the Sabbath5Of Sacrifices6Of the Abolition and the Abolisher of the Old Law7The Question Whether Christ Be Come Taken Up8Of the Times of Christ's Birth and Passion, and of Jerusalem's Destruction9Of the Prophecies of the Birth and Achievements of Christ10Concerning the Passion of Christ, and Its Old Testament Predictions and Adumbrations11Further Proofs, from Ezekiel. Summary of the Prophetic Argument Thus Far12Further Proofs from the Calling of the Gentiles13Argument from the Destruction of Jerusalem and Desolation of Judea14Conclusion. Clue to the Error of the Jews