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