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.”^40634063    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.”^40644064    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.”^40654065    Deut. xxviii. 66. Also in the twenty-first Psalm: “They tore my hands and my feet;^40664066    [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 paw^40674067    “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.”^40684068    Ps. xxii. 16–22. Also in the cxviiith Psalm: “Pierce my flesh with nails through fear of Thee.”^40694069    Ps. cxix. 120. Also in the cxlth Psalm:  “The lifting up of my hands is an evening sacrifice.”^40704070    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.”^40714071    Zeph. i. 7. Also in Zechariah: “And they shall look upon me, whom they have pierced.”^40724072    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.”^40734073    Ps. lxxxviii. 9. Also in Numbers: “Not as a man is God suspended, nor as the son of man does He suffer threats.”^40744074    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.”^40754075    John iii. 14, 15.