That the Jews would fasten Christ to the cross.

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 Also in Jeremiah:  “Come, let us cast the tree into His bread, and let us blot out His life from the earth.”⁴⁰⁶⁴ 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 Also in the twenty-first Psalm: “They tore my hands and my feet;⁴⁰⁶⁶ 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 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 Also in the cxviiith Psalm: “Pierce my flesh with nails through fear of Thee.”⁴⁰⁶⁹ Also in the cxlth Psalm:  “The lifting up of my hands is an evening sacrifice.”⁴⁰⁷⁰ 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 Also in Zechariah: “And they shall look upon me, whom they have pierced.”⁴⁰⁷² 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 Also in Numbers: “Not as a man is God suspended, nor as the son of man does He suffer threats.”⁴⁰⁷⁴ 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