the Lord with the sound of the trump.”648 And the session on the right hand: “The Lord said to my Lord sit thou on my right hand until I make thy foes thy footstool.”649 But Esaias 203 also declares the cause; saying, “for the transgressions of my people is He brought to death,”650 and because all have strayed like sheep, therefore is he sacrificed.”651 Then also he adds mention of the result, saying “by his stripes we have all been healed:”652 and “he hath borne the sins of many.”653 The prophets then knew the cross, and the cause of the cross and that which was effected by it, and the burial and the resurrection, and the ascension, and the betrayal, and the trial, and described them all with accuracy: and is He who sent them and commanded them to speak these things ignorant of them Himself? What reasonable man would say that? Seest thou that we must not attend merely to the words? For this is not the only perplexing passage, but what follows is more perplexing. For what does He say? “Father if it be possible let this cup pass from me.” Here he will be found to speak not only as if ignorant, but as if deprecating the cross: For this is what He says. “If it be permissible let me not be subjected to crucifixion and death.” And yet when Peter, the leader of the apostles, said this to Him, “Be it far from thee Lord, this shall not happen unto Thee,” He rebuked him so severely as to say; “get thee behind me Satan, thou art an offence unto me, for thou savourest not the things which be of God, but those which be of men:”654 although a short time before he had pronounced him blessed. But to escape crucifixion seemed to Him so monstrous a thing, that him who had received the revelation from the Father, him whom He had pronounced blessed, him who had received the keys of Heaven, He called Satan, and an offence, and accused him of not savouring the things which be of God because he said to Him, “Be it far from thee Lord, this shall never be unto Thee”—namely crucifixion. He then who thus vituperated the disciple, and poured such an invective upon him as actually to call him Satan (after having bestowed such great praise on him), because he said “avoid crucifixion,” how could He desire not to be crucified? and how after these things when drawing the picture of the good shepherd could He declare this to be the special proof of his virtue, that he should be sacrificed for the sake of the sheep, thus saying, “I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep?”655 Nor did He even stop there, but also added, “but he that is an hireling and not the shepherd seeth the wolf coming 648 Ps. xlvii. 5. 649 Ps. cx. 1. 650 Isa. liii. 8. 651 Isa. liii. 6, 7. 652 Isa. liii. 5. 653 Isa. liii. 12. 654 Matt. xvi. 22, 23. 655 John x. 11. 279 Against Marcionists and Manichæans.