alone
must we derive the ground of our faith; for God sent the Prophets to
the Jews to this end, that they should bear witness of the Christ
that was to come. Therefore it is that the Apostles throughout
convicted and convinced the Jews out of their own Scriptures that
this was the Christ.

Thus the books of Moses and the prophets are the Gospel, since they
have first preached and written of Christ that which the Apostles
afterward preached and wrote. Yet there is a distinction between
them. For although both, as to the letter, have been written out on
paper, yet the Gospel, or the New Testament, cannot be said so
properly to be written, but to have consisted in the living voice
which published it, and was heard generally throughout the world. But
that it should also have been written, is an extraneous matter. But
the Old Testament was composed only in writing, and is therefore
called the letter; and the Apostles give Scripture this same name
also, as it only pointed to the Christ that was to come. But the
Gospel is a living proclamation of Christ who has already come.

Besides, there is also a distinction among the books of the Old
Testament. In the first place, there are the five books of Moses, the
foundation of the Scriptures, and which are especially called the Old
Testament. Then come both histories and books of narration, wherein
examples of all kinds are recorded, whether of those who held or
rejected the law of Moses. In the third place, there are the prophets
that are based on Moses, and what he has written they have in clear
language more fully explained and elucidated. But the bearing of all
the prophets and of Moses is one and the same.

But you ought to understand also about that which men say, that the
Old Testament is given up and laid by. In the first place, there is
that distinction between the Old and New Testament, as we have said
above, that the Old prefigured Christ, but that the New gives us that
which was promised first in the Old, and pointed out to us by types.
But these types have now ceased, because the end which they were to
subserve has been answered and attained, and that which was
prefigured by them has been fulfilled. So that now there should be no
further distinctions of food, clothing, place and time. All are alike
in Christ, in whom all has been fulfilled. The Jews have not been
saved by this, for it was not given them to this end that it should
make them holy, but to foreshadow t