Polemic against the Sabbath
Chapter 18
“Since you, Trypho, admit that you have read the teachings of him who is our Savior, I do not consider it out of place to have added those few short sayings of his to the quotations from the prophets.
“Wash yourselves, be clean, and take away evil from your souls.1 Thus does God order you to be washed in this laver, and to be…
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