120 THE TREATISES OF CYPRIAN. 20. That the Jews would fastenChristto the cross. In Isaiah:"I have spread out my hands all day to a people disobedientand contradictingme, who walk in ways that are not good, but after theirown sins."1 Also in Jeremiah : " Come, let us cast the tree into His bread, and let us blot out His lifefrom the earth."2 Also in Deuteronomy : " And Thy lifeshallbe hanging (in doubt) before Thine eyes; and Thou shaltfear day and night, and shaltnot trustto Thy life."* Also in the twenty- firstPsalm : " They tore my hands and my feet; they numbered allmy bones. And they gazed upon me, and saw me, and dividedmy garments among them, and upon my vesturethey cast a lot. But Thou, O Lord, remove not Thy help far from me ; attend unto my help. Deliver my soul from the sword, and my only one from the paw4 of the dog. Save me from the mouth of the lion,and my lowlinessfrom the horns of the unicorns. I will declare Thy name unto my brethren; in the midst of the churchI willpraiseThee."6 Also in the 118th Psalm: "Pierce my fleshwith nailsthrough fear of thee."6 Also in the 140th Psalm : " The liftingup of my hands is an evening sacri fice."7 Of which sacrificeSophoniassaid: " Fear from the presenceof the Lord God, sinceHis day isnear,becausethe Lord hath prepared His sacrifice,He hath sanctifiedHis elect."8 Also in Zechariah: u And they shalllookupon me, whom they have pierced."9 Also in the eighty-seventh Psalm : " I have calledunto thee,O Lord, the whole day ; I have stretchedout my hands unto Thee." 10 Also in Num bers: " Not as a man is God suspended,nor as the sonof man does He sufferthreats."11 Whence in the Gospel the Lord says: " As Moses liftedup the serpentin the wilder ness,even so must the Son of man be liftedup, thatwhoso everbelievethin the Son may have lifeeternal."l* 1 Isa.lxv.2. * Jer.xi.19. 3 Deut.xxviii.66. 4 " Manu." * Ps.xxii.16-22. 6 Ps.cxix.120.7 Ps.cxli.2. 8 Zeph.i.7. • Zech.xii.10. 10Ps.lxxxviii.9. 11Num. xxiii.19. 13John1ii.14,15.