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Remains of the Second and Third Centuries · VI. He that bore up the earth was borne up on a tree. The Lord was subjected to ignominy with naked body—God put to death, the King of Israel slain!

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Two Scholia on Genesis XXII. 13.3628

The Syriac and the Hebrew use the word "suspended,"3629 as more clearly typifying the cross.

The word Sabek3630 some have rendered remission,3631 others upright,3632 as if the meaning, agreeing with the popular belief, were—a goat walking erect up to a bush, and there standing erect caught by his horns, so as to be a plain type of the cross. For this reason it is not translated, because the single Hebrew word signifies in other languages3633 many things. To those, however, who ask it is proper to give an answer, and to say that Sabek denotes lifted up.3634

Notes

  1. 3628

    In the edition of the LXX. published by Card. Caraffe, 1581.

  2. 3629

    kremamenos. The Hebrew is n'chz, the Syriac ***, both meaning simply "caught."

  3. 3630

    See note on the fragment just before.

  4. 3631

    aphesis.

  5. 3632

    orthios.

  6. 3633

    Lit. "when translated."

  7. 3634

    epermenos.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 8, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.