Epistle of Barnabas 12
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In like manner again He defineth concerning the cross in another prophet, who saith: And when shall these things be accomplished? Saith the Lord. Whensoever a tree shall be bowed down and rise again, and whensoever blood shall drip from a tree.
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Again thou art taught concerning the cross and him that was to be crucified. And He saith again in Moses, when war was waged against Israel by men of another nation, in order that He might remind them when the war was waged against them that, for their sins, they were delivered unto death.
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The Spirit saith to the heart of Moses, that he should make a type of the cross and of him that was to suffer, that unless, saith He, they shall set their hope on Him, then war shall be waged against them forever.
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Moses therefore placed weapons one upon another in the midst of the encounter, and standing on higher ground than any he stretched out his hands, and so Israel was again victorious. Then whenever he lowered them, they were slain with the sword.
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Wherefore? That they might learn that they cannot be saved, unless they should set their hope on Him.
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And again in another prophet He saith: The whole day long I have stretched out my hands to a disobedient people that gainsayeth my righteous way.
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Again Moses maketh a type of Jesus, signifying that He must suffer, and that He himself whom they shall think to have destroyed shall make alive in a sign.
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For the Lord caused all manner of serpents to bite them, and they died, forasmuch as the transgression was wrought in Eve through the serpent.
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That He might convince them that for their transgression they should be delivered over to the affliction of death.
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Moreover, though Moses gave the commandment: Ye shall not have a molten or a carved image for your God, yet he himself made one that he might show them the type of Jesus.
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So Moses maketh a brazen serpent, and setteth it up gloriously, and called the people by a proclamation. So they came together and entreated Moses that he should offer a prayer on their behalf for their healing. And Moses said unto them: When any of you shall be bitten, let him come to the serpent that is placed on the stake, and let him hope and believe that the serpent being itself dead can make alive; and straightway he shall be saved. And so they did.
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