of Jesus. Moses then makes a brazen serpent, and places it upon a beam,180 and by proclam-
ation assembles the people. When, therefore, they were come together, they besought Moses
that he would offer sacrifice181 in their behalf, and pray for their recovery. And Moses spake
unto them, saying, “When any one of you is bitten, let him come to the serpent placed on
the pole; and let him hope and believe, that even though dead, it is able to give him life, and
immediately he shall be restored.”182 And they did so. Thou hast in this also [an indication
of] the glory of Jesus; for in Him and to Him are all things.183 What, again, says Moses to
Jesus (Joshua) the son of Nave, when he gave him184 this name, as being a prophet, with
this view only, that all the people might hear that the Father would reveal all things concern-
ing His Son Jesus to the son185 of Nave? This name then being given him when he sent him
to spy out the land, he said, “Take a book into thy hands, and write what the Lord declares,
that the Son of God will in the last days cut off from the roots all the house of Amalek.”186
Behold again: Jesus who was manifested, both by type and in the flesh,187 is not the Son of
man, but the Son of God. Since, therefore, they were to say that Christ was the son188 of
David, fearing and understanding the error of the wicked, he saith, “The Lord said unto my
Lord, Sit at My right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool.”189 And again, thus
saith Isaiah, “The Lord said to Christ,190 my Lord, whose right hand I have holden,191 that
the nations should yield obedience before Him; and I will break in pieces the strength of
kings.”192 Behold how David calleth Him Lord and the Son of God.
180 Instead of ἐν δοκῷ, “on a beam,” Cod. Sin. with other mss. has ἐνδόξως, “manifestly,” which is adopted
by Hilgenfeld.
181 Cod. Sin. simply reads, “offer supplication.”
182 Num. xxi. 9.
183 Comp. Col. i. 16.
184 Cod. Sin. has the imperative, “Put on him;” but it is connected as above.
185 Cod. Sin. closes the sentence with Jesus, and inserts, “Moses said therefore to Jesus.”
186 Ex. xvii. 14.
187 Comp. 1 Tim. iii. 16.
188 That is, merely human: a reference is supposed to the Ebionites.
189 Ps. cx. 1; Matt. xxii. 43–45.
190 Cod. Sin. corrects “to Cyrus,” as LXX.
191 Cod. Sin. has, “he has taken hold.”
192 Isa. xlv. 1.
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