19.  And since we have touched on things connected with Paradise, I am truly astonished at the truth of the types.  In Paradise was the Fall, and in a Garden was our Salvation.  From the Tree came sin, and until the Tree sin lasted.  In the evening, when the Lord walked in the Garden, they hid themselves Gen. iii. 8.; and in the evening the robber is brought by the Lord into Paradise.  But some one will say to me, “Thou art inventing subtleties; shew me from some prophet the Wood of the Cross; except thou give me a testimony from a prophet, I will not be persuaded.  Hear then from Jeremias, and assure thyself; I was like a harmless lamb led to be slaughtered; did I not know it Jer. xi. 19:  I was like a tame (R.V. gentle) lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me.  Cyril’s interrogative rendering is not admissible.? (for in this manner read it as a question, as I have read it; for He who said, Ye know that after two days comes the passover, and the Son of Man is betrayed to be crucified Matt. xxvi. 2., did He not know?) I was like a harmless lamb led to be slaughtered; did I not know it? (but what sort of lamb? let John the Baptist interpret it, when he says, Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world John i. 29..)  They devised against Me a wicked device, saying Jer. xi. 19.—(He who knows the devices, knew He not the result of them?  And what said they?)—Come, and let us place a beam upon His bread Ibid.  R.V. Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof.  The word rendered fruit is literally bread.  The phrase is evidently proverbial.  The Hebrew word which means “destroy” is misinterpreted by ἐμβάλωμεν in the Greek.  Hence arose the fanciful application of the passage to the cross laid on the body of Christ to be borne by Him.  Justin M. (Tryph. lxxii.) charges the Jews with having recently cut out the passage because of the supposed reference to Christ.  Tertullian (adv. Judæos, c. 10) writes:  “Of course on His body that ‘wood’ was put; for so Christ has revealed, calling His body ‘bread.’”  He gives the same interpretation elsewhere (adv. Marcion. III. 19; IV. 40).  Cf. Cyprian (Testimonia ad Quirinum, Lib. II. 15); Athanas. (de Incarn. § 33).—(and if the Lord reckon thee worthy, thou shalt hereafter learn, that His body according to the Gospel bore the figure of bread;)—Come then, and let us place a beam upon His bread, and cut Him off out of the land of the living;—(life is not cut off, why labour ye for nought?)—And His name shall be remembered no more.  Vain is your counsel; for before the sun His Name Ps. lxxii. 17. abideth in the Church.  And that it was Life, which hung on the Cross, Moses says, weeping, And thy life shall be hanging before thine eyes; and thou shalt be afraid day and night, and thou shalt not trust thy life Deut. xxviii. 66..  And so too, what was just now read as the text, Lord, who hath believed our report?