In like manner again he signifieth concerning the cross in another prophet, who saith, And when shall these things be fulfilled? The Lord saith, When the tree hath been bent and shall rise up again, and when blood shall flow from the tree. You have again a prophecy concerning the cross and about him who is about to be crucified.
And he saith again in Moses, when Israel was being made war upon by aliens, even that he might remind them while they were being made war upon, that for their sins they were being delivered over unto death, the Spirit saith unto the heart of Moses, that he should make the form of a cross, and of him who was about to suffer, signifying thereby that if they hope not upon him they will be made war upon for ever. Moses, therefore, placeth one weapon upon another in the midst of the fight, and standing higher than all, stretched out his hands, and so again Israel conquered; then, when he let them down, they were again slaughtered.
Wherefore? that they might know that they are not to be saved except they hope upon him.
And again in another prophet he saith, All day long have I stretched out my hands unto a people who are disobedient, and who speak against my righteous way.
Again, Moses maketh another type of Jesus, that it behoveth that he should suffer and cause others to live, whom they thought that they had destroyed in figure when Israel was falling: For the Lord made every kind of snake to bite them, and they died, since the transgression happened to Eve by means of the serpent, to the end that he might convince them that through their transgression they should be given over to the pangs of death.
For in the end Moses himself, after that he had given commandment, There shall not be among you a molten image or a graven image for a god, maketh one himself that he might show a type of Jesus. Moses, therefore, maketh a brazen serpent, and setteth it aloft, and calleth the people by a proclamation.
When, therefore, they had come together they besought Moses, that he should offer supplication for them concerning their healing. Moses therefore said unto them, When any of you is bitten let him come unto the serpent, that is placed upon the tree, and let him believe and hope that, though it is dead, it is able to make him live, and immediately he shall be saved; and so did they. You have, therefore, again in these things also, the glory of Jesus, that in him and to him are all things.
What again saith Moses unto Jesus the son of Nun, after he had given this name to him, being a prophet? Only that all the people might hear that the Father revealeth all things concerning his son.
Moses therefore saith unto the son of Nun, having given him this name when he sent him to spy out the land, Take the book into thy hands and write what the Lord saith, even that the Son of God, in the last days, will cut off the whole house of Amalek from the roots.
Behold, therefore, again Jesus, not the son of man but the Son of God, and by a type made manifest in the flesh. Since, therefore, they should one day say that Christ is the son of David, David himself prophesieth, fearing and understanding the deceitfulness of sinners, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit on my right hand until I make thy enemies thy footstool.
And again Esaias speaketh in this wise, The Lord said unto Christ, my Lord, whose right hand I have held, that the Gentiles should hearken before him, and I will break the strength of kings. Behold how David calleth him Lord, and how he calleth him he Son of God.