for our sins the vessel of the Spirit, in order that the type established in Isaac when he was offered uj)on the altar might be fully accom- plished. What, then, says He in the prophet? " And let them eat of the goat which is offered, with fasting, for all their sins." '^ Attend care- fully : " And let all the priests alone eat the inwards, unwashed with vinegar." Wherefore? Because to me, who am to offer my flesh for the sins of my new people, ye are to give gall with vinegar to drink : eat ye alone, while the people fast and mourn in sackcloth and ashes. [These things were done] that He might show that it was necessary for Him to suffer for them.''* How,'5 then, ran the commandment? Give your attention. Take two goats of goodly aspect, and similar to each other, and offer them. And let the priest take one as a burnt- offering for sins.'*" And what should they do with the other? "Accursed," says He, "is the one." Mark how the type of Jesus '^ now comes out. "And all of you spit upon it, and pierce it, and encircle its head with scarlet wool, and thus let it be driven into the wilderness." And when all this has been done, he who bears the goat brings it into the desert, and takes the wool off from it, and places that upon a shrub which is called Rachia,^^ of which also we are accustomed to eat the fruits '^ when we find them in the field. Of this^° kind of shrub alone the fruits are sweet. Why then, again, is this? Give good heed. [You see] " one upon the altar, and the other accursed ; " and why [do you behold] the one that is accursed crowned? Because they shall see Him then in that day having a scarlet robe about his body down to his feet ; and they shall say. Is not this He whom we once despised, and pierced, and mocked, and crucified? Truly this i^-' He who then declared Himself to be the Son of God. For how like is He to Him ! ^^ With a view to this, [He required] the goats to be of goodly aspect, and similar, that, when they see Him then coming, they may be amazed by the like- ness of the goat. Behold, then,-^ the type of Jesus who was to suffer. But why is it that they