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'Lead us on, then,' he said, 'from the Scriptures, so that we too may be persuaded by you. For that He was to suffer and to be led as a sheep, we know; but show us also that He was to be crucified and to die so shamefully and dishonorably by the death accursed in the law—for we cannot even bring ourselves to the thought of this.'
'You know,' I said, 'that all that the prophets said and did—as has also been acknowledged by you—they revealed in parables and types, so that most of these things might not easily be understood by all, hiding the truth in them, so that those who seek to find and learn might have to labor.' And they said: 'This too has been acknowledged by us.'
'You would then hear,' I said, 'what comes next. For Moses was the first to make manifest this seeming curse of His by the signs which he did.' 'Of which of these,' he said, 'are you speaking?'
'When the people,' I said, 'were warring against Amalek, and the son of Nun—who was surnamed by the name of Jesus—was leading the battle, Moses himself prayed to God, stretching out his hands on both sides, while Hur and Aaron held them up all day long, lest they should drop when he grew weary. For if he relaxed at all from this figure that imitates the cross, as it is written in the writings of Moses, the people were defeated; but if he remained in this posture, Amalek was overcome to that degree, and being strong, he prevailed through the cross.'
'For it was not because Moses prayed in this way that the people became victorious, but because, while the name of Jesus was at the head of the battle, he himself made the sign of the cross. For who among you does not know that the prayer offered with lamentation and tears, and with a prostrate posture or on bended knees, most of all appeases God? Yet in this manner—seated upon a stone—neither did he himself pray, nor any other afterward. And the stone too has a symbol pointing to Christ, as I have shown.'