{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">In like manner He points to the cross of Christ in another\r\nprophet, who saith,<a id=\"r618\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f618\"><sup>[618]</sup></a> “And when shall these things be accomplished?\r\nAnd the Lord saith, When a tree shall be bent\r\ndown, and again arise, and when blood shall flow out of\r\nwood.”<a id=\"r619\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f619\"><sup>[619]</sup></a> Here again you have an intimation concerning the\r\ncross, and Him who should be crucified. Yet again He speaks\r\nof this<a id=\"r620\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f620\"><sup>[620]</sup></a> in Moses, when Israel was attacked by strangers.\r\nAnd that He might remind them, when assailed, that it was\r\non account of their sins they were delivered to death, the\r\nSpirit speaks to the heart of Moses, that he should make a\r\nfigure of the cross,<a id=\"r621\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f621\"><sup>[621]</sup></a> and of Him about to suffer thereon; for\r\nunless they put their trust in Him, they shall be overcome\r\nfor ever. Moses therefore placed one weapon above another\r\nin the midst of the hill,<a id=\"r622\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f622\"><sup>[622]</sup></a> and standing upon it, so as to be\r\nhigher than all the people, he stretched forth his hands,<a id=\"r623\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f623\"><sup>[623]</sup></a> and\r\nthus again Israel acquired the mastery. But when again he\r\nlet down his hands, they were again destroyed. For what\r\nreason? That they might know that they could not be saved\r\nunless they put their trust in Him.<a id=\"r624\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f624\"><sup>[624]</sup></a> And in another prophet\r\nHe declares, “All day long I have stretched forth my hands\r\nto an unbelieving people, and one that gainsays my righteous\r\nway.”<a id=\"r625\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f625\"><sup>[625]</sup></a> And again Moses makes a type of Jesus, [signifying]\r\nthat it was necessary for Him to suffer, [and also] that He\r\nwould be the author of life<a id=\"r626\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f626\"><sup>[626]</sup></a> [to others], whom they believed\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_123\">123</span>to have destroyed on the cross<a id=\"r627\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f627\"><sup>[627]</sup></a> when Israel was falling. For\r\nsince transgression was committed by Eve through means of\r\nthe serpent, [the Lord] brought it to pass that every [kind\r\nof] serpents bit them, and they died,<a id=\"r628\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f628\"><sup>[628]</sup></a> that He might convince\r\nthem, that on account of their transgression they were given\r\nover to the straits of death. Moreover Moses, when he commanded,\r\n“Ye shall not have any graven or molten [image]\r\nfor your God,”<a id=\"r629\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f629\"><sup>[629]</sup></a> did so that he might reveal a type of Jesus.\r\nMoses then makes a brazen serpent, and places it upon a\r\nbeam,<a id=\"r630\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f630\"><sup>[630]</sup></a> and by proclamation assembles the people. When,\r\ntherefore, they were come together, they besought Moses\r\nthat he would offer sacrifice<a id=\"r631\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f631\"><sup>[631]</sup></a> in their behalf, and pray for\r\ntheir recovery. And Moses spake unto them, saying, “When\r\nany one of you is bitten, let him come to the serpent\r\nplaced on the pole; and let him hope and believe, that even\r\nthough dead, it is able to give him life, and immediately\r\nhe shall be restored.”<a id=\"r632\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f632\"><sup>[632]</sup></a> And they did so. Thou hast in this\r\nalso [an indication of] the glory of Jesus; for in Him and\r\nto Him are all things.<a id=\"r633\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f633\"><sup>[633]</sup></a> What, again, says Moses to Jesus\r\n(Joshua) the son of Nave, when he gave him<a id=\"r634\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f634\"><sup>[634]</sup></a> this name, as\r\nbeing a prophet, with this view only, that all the people\r\nmight hear that the Father would reveal all things concerning\r\nHis Son Jesus to the son<a id=\"r635\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f635\"><sup>[635]</sup></a> of Nave? This name then\r\nbeing given him when he sent him to spy out the land, he\r\nsaid, “Take a book into thy hands, and write what the Lord\r\ndeclares, that the Son of God will in the last days cut off\r\nfrom the roots all the house of Amalek.”<a id=\"r636\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f636\"><sup>[636]</sup></a> Behold again:\r\nJesus who was manifested, both by type and in the flesh,<a id=\"r637\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f637\"><sup>[637]</sup></a> is\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_124\">124</span>not the Son of man, but the Son of God. Since, therefore,\r\nthey were to say that Christ was the son<a id=\"r638\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f638\"><sup>[638]</sup></a> of David, fearing\r\nand understanding the error of the wicked, he saith, “The\r\nLord said unto my Lord, Sit at my right hand, until I make\r\nThine enemies Thy footstool.”<a id=\"r639\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f639\"><sup>[639]</sup></a> And again, thus saith Isaiah,\r\n“The Lord said to Christ,<a id=\"r640\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f640\"><sup>[640]</sup></a> my Lord, whose right hand I\r\nhave holden,<a id=\"r641\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f641\"><sup>[641]</sup></a> that the nations should yield obedience before\r\nHim; and I will break in pieces the strength of kings.”<a id=\"r642\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f642\"><sup>[642]</sup></a>\r\nBehold how David calleth Him Lord and the Son of God.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS.","THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS.","Chap. xii.—The cross of Christ frequently announced in the Old Testament."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-177"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6f5497f5c029bf68114eee1359daad7c3e182ffad85501e197d1c9ae444d15fd","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f631","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. 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