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    • That the Jews would fasten Christ to the cross.
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    20.  That the Jews would fasten Christ to the cross.

    In Isaiah: “I have spread out my hands all day to a people disobedient and contradicting me, who walk in ways that are not good, but after their own sins.”4063

    4063 Isa. lxv. 2. [So Justin, vol. i. pp. 179 and 206. But compare Isa. xxv. 11, a remarkable simile.]

    Also in Jeremiah:  “Come, let us cast the tree into His bread, and let us blot out His life from the earth.”4064

    4064 Jer. xi. 19.

    Also in Deuteronomy:  “And Thy life shall be hanging (in doubt) before Thine eyes; and Thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt not trust to Thy life.”4065

    4065 Deut. xxviii. 66.

    Also in the twenty-first Psalm: “They tore my hands and my feet;4066

    4066 [This is one of the passages corrupted by the Jews since the crucifixion. See Pearson, On the Creed, p. 534. All his notes on “crucified” are most precious.]

    they numbered all my bones. And they gazed upon me, and saw me, and divided my garments among them, and upon my vesture they cast a lot. But Thou, O Lord, remove not Thy help far from me; attend unto my help. Deliver my soul from the sword, and my only one from the paw4067

    4067 “Manu.”

    of the dog. Save me from the mouth of the lion, and my lowliness from the horns of the unicorns. I will declare Thy name unto my brethren; in the midst of the Church I will praise Thee.”4068

    4068 Ps. xxii. 16–22.

    Also in the cxviiith Psalm: “Pierce my flesh with nails through fear of Thee.”4069

    4069 Ps. cxix. 120.

    Also in the cxlth Psalm:  “The lifting up of my hands is an evening sacrifice.”4070

    4070 Ps. cxli. 2.

    Of which sacrifice Sophonias said: “Fear from the presence of the Lord God, since His day is near, because the Lord hath prepared His sacrifice, He hath sanctified His elect.”4071

    4071 Zeph. i. 7.

    Also in Zechariah: “And they shall look upon me, whom they have pierced.”4072

    4072 Zech. xii. 10.

    Also in the eighty-seventh Psalm: “I have called unto Thee, O Lord, the whole day; I have stretched out my hands unto Thee.”4073

    4073 Ps. lxxxviii. 9.

    Also in Numbers: “Not as a man is God suspended, nor as the son of man does He suffer threats.”4074

    4074 Num. xxiii. 19.

    Whence in the Gospel the Lord says: “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth in the Son may have life eternal.”4075

    4075 John iii. 14, 15.

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