{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Understand, then, ye children of gladness, that the good\r\nLord has foreshown all things to us, that we might know to\r\nwhom we ought for everything to render thanksgiving and\r\npraise. If therefore the Son of God, who is Lord [of all\r\nthings], and who will judge the living and the dead, suffered,\r\nthat His stroke might give us life, let us believe that the Son\r\nof God could not have suffered except for our sakes. Moreover,\r\nwhen fixed to the cross, He had given Him to drink\r\nvinegar and gall. Hearken how the priests of the people<a id=\"r540\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f540\"><sup>[540]</sup></a>\r\ngave previous indications of this. His commandment having\r\nbeen written, the Lord enjoined, that whosoever did not keep\r\nthe fast should be put to death, because He also Himself was\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_113\">113</span>to offer in sacrifice for our sins the vessel of the Spirit, in\r\norder that the type established in Isaac when he was offered\r\nupon the altar might be fully accomplished. What, then,\r\nsays He in the prophet? “And let them eat of the goat\r\nwhich is offered, with fasting, for all their sins.”<a id=\"r541\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f541\"><sup>[541]</sup></a> Attend\r\ncarefully: “And let all the priests alone eat the inwards, unwashed\r\nwith vinegar.” Wherefore? Because to me, who\r\nam to offer my flesh for the sins of my new people, ye are\r\nto give gall with vinegar to drink: eat ye alone, while the\r\npeople fast and mourn in sackcloth and ashes. [These things\r\nwere done] that He might show that it was necessary for\r\nHim to suffer for them.<a id=\"r542\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f542\"><sup>[542]</sup></a> How,<a id=\"r543\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f543\"><sup>[543]</sup></a> then, ran the commandment?\r\nGive your attention. Take two goats of goodly\r\naspect, and similar to each other, and offer them. And let\r\nthe priest take one as a burnt-offering for sins.<a id=\"r544\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f544\"><sup>[544]</sup></a> And what\r\nshould they do with the other? “Accursed,” says He, “is\r\nthe one.” Mark how the type of Jesus<a id=\"r545\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f545\"><sup>[545]</sup></a> now comes out.\r\n“And all of you spit upon it, and pierce it, and encircle its\r\nhead with scarlet wool, and thus let it be driven into the\r\nwilderness.” And when all this has been done, he who bears\r\nthe goat brings it into the desert, and takes the wool off from\r\nit, and places that upon a shrub which is called <i>Rachia</i>,<a id=\"r546\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f546\"><sup>[546]</sup></a> of\r\nwhich also we are accustomed to eat the fruits<a id=\"r547\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f547\"><sup>[547]</sup></a> when we find\r\nthem in the field. Of this<a id=\"r548\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f548\"><sup>[548]</sup></a> kind of shrub alone the fruits\r\nare sweet. Why then, again, is this? Give good heed.\r\n[You see] “one upon the altar, and the other accursed;”\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_114\">114</span>and why [do you behold] the one that is accursed crowned?\r\nBecause they shall see Him then in that day having a\r\nscarlet robe about his body down to his feet; and they shall\r\nsay, Is not this He whom we once despised, and pierced, and\r\nmocked, and crucified? Truly this is<a id=\"r549\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f549\"><sup>[549]</sup></a> He who then declared\r\nHimself to be the Son of God. For how like is He to Him!<a id=\"r550\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f550\"><sup>[550]</sup></a>\r\nWith a view to this, [He required] the goats to be of goodly\r\naspect, and similar, that, when they see Him then coming,\r\nthey may be amazed by the likeness of the goat. Behold,\r\nthen,<a id=\"r551\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f551\"><sup>[551]</sup></a> the type of Jesus who was to suffer. But why is it\r\nthat they place the wool in the midst of thorns? It is a\r\ntype of Jesus set before the view of the church. [They<a id=\"r552\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f552\"><sup>[552]</sup></a>\r\nplace the wool among thorns], that any one who wishes to\r\nbear it away may find it necessary to suffer much, because\r\nthe thorn is formidable, and thus obtain it only as the result\r\nof suffering. Thus also, says He, “Those who wish to behold\r\nme, and lay hold of my kingdom, must through tribulation\r\nand suffering obtain me.”<a id=\"r553\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f553\"><sup>[553]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS.","THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS.","Chap. vii.—Fasting, and the goat sent away, were types of Christ."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-172"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d823e53cb433bf8503c89342d2661f5bbd66876393c5c9c2f0b53674b3babdd5","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-f550","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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