Anf-02 vi.iii.i.vii Pg 27.1
Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xviii Pg 13
Gen. xlix. 6. The last clause is, “ceciderunt nervos tauro.”
that is, of Christ. For against Him did they wreak their fury after they had slain His prophets, even by affixing Him with nails to the cross. Otherwise, it is an idle thing3354 3354 Vanum.
when, after slaying men, he inveighs against them for the torture of a bullock! Again, in the case of Moses, wherefore did he at that moment particularly, when Joshua was fighting Amalek, pray in a sitting posture with outstretched hands, when in such a conflict it would surely have been more seemly to have bent the knee, and smitten the breast, and to have fallen on the face to the ground, and in such prostration to have offered prayer? Wherefore, but because in a battle fought in the name of that Lord who was one day to fight against the devil, the shape was necessary of that very cross through which Jesus was to win the victory? Why, once more, did the same Moses, after prohibiting the likeness of everything, set up the golden serpent on the pole; and as it hung there, propose it as an object to be looked at for a cure?3355 3355 Spectaculum salutare.
Did he not here also intend to show the power of our Lord’s cross, whereby that old serpent the devil was vanquished,—whereby also to every man who was bitten by spiritual serpents, but who yet turned with an eye of faith to it, was proclaimed a cure from the bite of sin, and health for evermore?
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 49
VERSE (6) - Jud 5:21 Ps 42:5,11; 43:5; 103:1 Jer 4:19 Lu 12:19
