Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho 137

Brothers, do not speak anything evil against the one who was crucified, and do not mock his bruises, for through them all may be healed, just as we also have been healed. It is good, if you are persuaded by these words, to circumcise your hardness of heart—a hardness that does not arise from your own judgment, since it was given as a sign, not as a work of righteousness, as the words compel us to understand. Therefore, having agreed on this, do not rail against the Son of God, nor, by obeying Pharisee teachers, ever despise the King of Israel, as your synagogue rulers teach after the prayer. For if the one who touches things displeasing to God is like the one who touches the daughter of God, how much more is this true for the one who touches the Beloved. That this one is he has been sufficiently demonstrated. When they fell silent, I said: "I, friends, now speak the scriptures as the Seventy interpreted them. For having quoted them earlier just as you have them, I was testing you to see how your judgment was already disposed. When I cited the scripture that says: 'Woe to them, because they devise a wicked counsel against themselves,' the Seventy interpreted it as: 'Let us take away the righteous, for he is troublesome to us.' But I, at the beginning of our conversation, having said what you yourselves wished to be said, quoted: 'Let us bind the righteous, for he is troublesome to us' (Isaiah 3:10-11). Yet you did something else, and you do not seem to me to have listened attentively to the words. Now since the day is about to end, for the sun is already in the west, I will stop after adding one thing to what has been said. This very thing was also spoken to me in what was said, and it seems right to me to elaborate on it once more.