§ 1.
Well therefore doth John also make mention of the Lord saying to the Jews, Search the Scriptures, in which ye think ye have eternal life:1 they are they which testify of Me. And ye will not come unto Me,2 that ye may have life. How then did the Scriptures testify of Him, if they came not of one and the same Father, informing men before of the coming of His Son, and foretelling the salvation which is from Him?3 For had ye believed Moses, saith He, ye would have believed Me also: for he wrote of Me: meaning that the Son of God is as seed scattered everywhere in His Scriptures, at one time speaking with Abraham, at another with Noah, giving them His measures: at another time seeking out Adam; at another again bringing judgement upon the Sodomites: as also when He appears and guides Jacob in the way, and speaks out of the Bush with Moses.
Neither can one count the instances wherein the Son of God is set forth by Moses:4 and the very day of His Passion he was not ignorant of, but in figure foretold Him, under the name of the Passover: and on the very same day, which was announced by Moses so long before, the Lord suffered, fulfilling the Passover. Nor did he only set down the day, but the place also, and the end of the times, and the token of the going down of the Sun,5 saying, Thou mayest not immolate the Passover in any other of thy cities, which the Lord thy God giveth unto thee, except in that place which the Lord thy God shall chuse for His Name to be invoked there: thou shalt immolate the Passover in the evening at the going down of the sun.
§ 2.
And he had before marked His Advent by the words,6 A Prince shall not be wanting in Judah, nor a leader from out of his loins, until He cometh for whom it is laid up, and He is the Gentiles’ Hope, binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the tendril. He shall wash his robe in wine, and his outer garment in the blood of the grape: his eyes are joyous with wine, and his teeth whiter than milk. Now let these, who are said to search out all things, see what was the time wherein the Prince failed, and the Leader out of Judah, and who is the Hope of the Gentiles, and who the Vine, and who his foal, and what is the garment, and what the eyes, and what the teeth, and what the wine, and every particular above mentioned; and they will find that no other Person, but our Lord Jesus Christ, is proclaimed. Wherefore Moses rebuking the people for their ingratitude,7 saith, In such sort, ye foolish people and unwise, have ye made this return to the Lord? And again where he intimates that the Word Who created and made them from the beginning, in the last times also, when He is redeeming and quickening us, is shewn hanging on a tree, and they will not believe Him.8 For he saith, And thy life shall be hanging before thine eyes and thou wilt not believe thy life. And again,9 Did not this same, thy Father, possess thee and make thee and create thee?