20.  That the Jews would fasten Christ to the cross. In Isaiah: “I have spread out my hands all day to a people disobedient and contradicting me, who walk in ways that are not good, but after their own sins.” 4063 Also in Jeremiah:  “Come, let us cast the tree into His bread, and let us blot out His life from the earth.” 4064 Also in Deuteronomy:  “And Thy life shall be hanging (in doubt) before Thine eyes; and Thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt not trust to Thy life.” 4065 Also in the twenty-first Psalm: “They tore my hands and my feet; 4066 they numbered all my bones. And they gazed upon me, and saw me, and divided my garments among them, and upon my vesture they 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 paw 4067 of the dog. Save me from the mouth of the lion, and my lowliness from the horns of the unicorns. I will declare Thy name unto my brethren; in the midst of the Church I will praise Thee.” 4068 Also in the cxviiith Psalm: “Pierce my flesh with nails through fear of Thee.” 4069 Also in the cxlth Psalm:  “The lifting up of my hands is an evening sacrifice.” 4070 Of which sacrifice Sophonias said: “Fear from the presence of the Lord God, since His day is near, because the Lord hath prepared His sacrifice, He hath sanctified His elect.” 4071 Also in Zechariah: “And they shall look upon me, whom they have pierced.” 4072 Also in the eighty-seventh Psalm: “I have called unto Thee, O Lord, the whole day; I have stretched out my hands unto Thee.” 4073 Also in Numbers: “Not as a man is God suspended, nor as the son of man does He suffer threats.” 4074 Whence in the Gospel the Lord says: “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth in the Son may have life eternal.” 4075 4063     Isa. lxv. 2 . [So Justin, vol. i. pp. 179 and 206. But compare Isa. xxv. 11 , a remarkable simile.] 4064     Jer. xi. 19 . 4065     Deut. xxviii. 66 . 4066     [This is one of the passages corrupted by the Jews since the crucifixion. See Pearson, On the Creed , p. 534. All his notes on “crucified” are most precious.] 4067     “Manu.” 4068     Ps. xxii. 16–22 . 4069     Ps. cxix. 120 . 4070     Ps. cxli. 2 . 4071     Zeph. i. 7 . 4072     Zech. xii. 10 . 4073     Ps. lxxxviii. 9 . 4074     Num. xxiii. 19 . 4075     John iii. 14, 15 .