Against Celsus 2.37

After this he who has taken from the Gospel words he thinks he can accuse reproaches Jesus with the vinegar and gall, as if he rushed greedily to drink and did not endure his thirst, as even an ordinary man often endures it. This belongs by itself to exposition in the figurative sense; but now what is said would call for a more general answer to the objection, namely, that the prophets foretold this too. For it is written in the sixty-eighth psalm, in the person of the Christ: “And they gave me gall for my food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.” Or let the Jews say who it is in the prophet who says these things, and let them show from history the one who took “gall” into his “food” and was given “vinegar” to drink. Or let them even dare to say that the Christ whom they think will come is going to be in these circumstances; so that we may say: what harm is there in what was prophesied having already happened? This very thing, said so long before, is enough, together with the other prophetic foreknowledge, to move one who examines the whole matter fairly to agree that Jesus is the Christ who was prophesied and the Son of God.