In like manner He points to the cross of Christ in another prophet, who saith, '^ " And when shall these things be accomplished? And the Lord saith. When a tree shall be bent down, and again arise, and when blood shall flow out of wood." "^ Here again you have an intimation concerning the cross, and Him who should be crucified. Yet again He speaks of this ^° in Moses, when Israel was attacked by strangers. And that He might remind them, when assailed, that it was on account of their sins they were delivered to death, the Spirit speaks to the heart of Moses, that he should make a figure of the cross,"^' and of Him about to suffer thereon ; for unless they put their trust in Him, they shall be overcome for ever. Moses therefore placed one weapon above another in the midst of the hill,^^ and