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is killed. And the whole multitude of the congregation of the sons of Israel shall slay it; for unbelieving Israel has become guilty of that precious blood, the one slaying in the past, the other disbelieving until now; wherefore the divine spirit testifies against them and cries out, saying: "Your hands are full of blood." And the blood upon the lintel as upon the church, and upon the two doorposts as upon the two peoples.

25.2 For the savior does not deny having been sent first to you, O Israel; "For

I was not sent," he says, "to you, but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel"; but I, like a little dog, sat beside a foreign table, not yet being able to eat the bread, but gathering up the crumbs that fall, a parasite of another's food; but since you did not know the manna from the heavens, the bread was transferred to me through faith and I, instead of a dog, now becoming a son [...].

26.1 And the flesh is eaten at night; for the light of the world set upon the great

body of Christ; "Take, eat, this is my body." And the flesh roasted with fire; for the rational body of Christ is fiery; "I came to cast fire on the earth, and what did I wish, if it were already kindled?". The flesh is not raw, so that the word may be easily worked, and well-offered, and well-received; nor boiled in water, so that the word may not be moist nor watery nor enfeebled. Head with the feet and the inwards, [...] as invisible counsel, feet as man. 29.2 Head with the feet and the inwards, beginning and middle and end, holding all things together and binding and gluing them in himself with indissoluble bonds, becoming truly "mediator between God and men."

29.3 Head with the feet and the inwards, God, word and man on

earth. 29.4 Head with the feet and the inwards, in height and depth and breadth <**> and the roots of the earth. 29.5 Head with the feet and the inwards, law and word and apostles, law as beginning and word as counsel and apostles as feet; "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach good things."

30.1 And a bone of it you shall not break, so that the resurrection with the

body may be known; "Put," for he says, "your fingers into the prints of the nails, so that you may know that a spirit does not have flesh and bones." You shall eat unleavened bread with bitter herbs; for to you the mysteries are bitter, or of bitter works; "Your land is desolate, your cities are burned with fire, strangers devour your country in your presence, and it is desolate, overthrown by foreign peoples." You shall eat the pascha in haste; for everyone who is about to approach the great body must be watchful and sober. Your loins girded; let the loosened springs of generation cease, <the> embraces of flesh and the filthy pleasures. Your sandals on your feet; bases cutting straight, supports unhindered; for roots of truth.

34.2 Your sandals on your feet, which Moses indeed took off,

but Jesus put on; "Loose," for he says, "the sandal from your feet," so that the passing away of the law might be shown, "whose sandal-strap I am not worthy to loose," so that the all-around firmness of the word might be revealed. 35.1 Your staffs in your hands, the signs of divine power, the supports of rational strength, the rod through Moses, the rod through Aaron, the rod of nut-wood, the rod that cut the depths of the sea, <the rod> that sweetened the bitterness of springs, the rod upon which the seven holy spirits of God rested; "The spirit of wisdom and understanding,

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φονεύεται. Σφάξουσι δὲ αὐτὸ πᾶν τὸ πλῆθος συναγωγῆς υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ· ὁ ἄπιστος γὰρ Ἰσραὴλ ἔνοχος γέγονεν ἐκείνου τοῦ τιμίου αἵματος, ὁ μὲν γὰρ πάλαι φονεύων, ὁ δὲ μέχρι νῦν ἀπιστῶν· διὸ καταμαρτυρεῖται αὐτῶν τὸ θεῖον πνεῦμα καὶ βοᾷ λέγον· "Αἱ χεῖρες ὑμῶν αἵματος πλήρεις". Τὸ δὲ αἷμα ἐπὶ τὴν φλιὰν ὡς ἐπὶ τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν δύο σταθμῶν ὡς ἐπὶ τῶν δύο λαῶν.

25.2 Οὐ γὰρ ἀρνεῖται ὁ σωτὴρ πρὸς σὲ πρῶτον, ὦ Ἰσραήλ, ἀπεσταλμένος· "Οὐ

γὰρ ἀπεστάλην, φησί, πρὸς ὑμᾶς, ἀλλὰ πρὸς τὰ πρόβατα τὰ ἀπολωλότα οἴκου Ἰσραήλ"· ἐγὼ δὲ ὡς κυνίδιον ἀλλοτρίᾳ τραπέζῃ παρε καθεζόμην, τὸν μὲν ἄρτον μήπω φαγεῖν δυνάμενος, τὰς δὲ ψιχίας τὰς ἐκπιπτούσας ἀναλέγων παράσιτος ἀλλοτρίας τροφῆς· ἐπειδὴ δὲ οὐκ ἔγνως τὸ μάννα τὸ ἐκ τῶν οὐρανῶν, εἰς ἐμὲ ὁ ἄρτος διὰ τῆς πίστεως μετετέθη καὶ ὁ ἀντὶ κυνὸς υἱὸς ἤδη γιγνόμενος [...].

26.1 Ἐν νυκτὶ δὲ τὰ κρέα ἐσθίεται· ἔδυ γὰρ τὸ τοῦ κόσμου φῶς ἐπὶ τῷ μεγάλῳ

σώματι τοῦ Χριστοῦ· "Λάβετε, φάγετε, τοῦτο μού ἐστι τὸ σῶμα". Τὰ δὲ κρέα ὀπτὰ πυρί· ἔμπυρον γὰρ λογικὸν σῶμα τοῦ Χριστοῦ· "Πῦρ ἦλθον βαλεῖν εἰς τὴν γῆν, καὶ τί ἤθελον, εἰ ἤδη ἀνήφθη;". Οὐκ ὠμὸν τὸ κρέας, ἵνα εὐκατέργαστος ᾖ ὁ λόγος καὶ εὐπρόσφορος καὶ εὐπαράδεκτος· οὐδὲ ἐν ὕδατι ἡψημένον, ἵνα μὴ ὑγρὸς ᾖ μηδὲ ὑδατώδης ὁ λόγος μηδὲ ἐκλελυμένος. Κεφαλὴν σὺν τοῖς ποσὶ καὶ τοῖς ἐντοσθίοις, [...] ὡς ἀόρατος βουλή, πόδες ὡς ἄνθρωπος. 29.2 Κεφαλὴ σὺν τοῖς ποσὶ καὶ τοῖς ἐντοσθίοις, ἀρχὴ καὶ μεσότης καὶ τέλος, πάντα συνέχων καὶ συσφίγγων καὶ συγκολλῶν ἐν ἑαυτῷ ἀλύτοις δεσμοῖς, γενόμενος ἀληθῶς "μεσίτης Θεοῦ καὶ ἀνθρώπων".

29.3 Κεφαλὴ σὺν τοῖς ποσὶ καὶ τοῖς ἐντοσθίοις, Θεὸς, λόγος καὶ ἄνθρωπος ἐν

γῇ. 29.4 Κεφαλὴ σὺν τοῖς ποσὶ καὶ τοῖς ἐντοσθίοις, ὕψει καὶ βάθει καὶ πλάτει <**> καὶ γῆς καταρριζώματα. 29.5 Κεφαλὴ σὺν τοῖς ποσὶ καὶ τοῖς ἐντοσθίοις, νόμος καὶ λόγος καὶ ἀποστολοί, νόμος ὡς ἀρχὴ καὶ λόγος ὡς βουλὴ καὶ ἀποστολοὶ ὡς πόδες· "Ὡς ὡραῖοι οἱ πόδες τῶν εὐαγγελιζομένων τὰ ἀγαθά".

30.1 Ὀστέον δὲ οὐ συντρίψετε ἀπ' αὐτοῦ, ἵνα γνωστὴ ᾖ ἡ ἀνάστασις ἡ μετὰ

σώματος· "Βάλε" γάρ φησι "τοὺς δακτύλους σου εἰς τοὺς τῶν ἥλων τύπους, ἵνα γνῷς ὅτι πνεῦμα σάρκα καὶ ὀστέα οὐκ ἔχει". Ἄζυμα μετὰ πικρίδων ἔδεσθε· πικρὰ γάρ σοι ἢ πικρῶν ἔργων τὰ μυστήρια· "Ἡ γῆ ὑμῶν ἔρημος, αἱ πόλεις ὑμῶν πυρίκαυστοι, τὴν χώραν ὑμῶν ἀλλότριοι ἐνώπιον ὑμῶν κατεσθίουσι, καὶ ἠρήμω ται κατεστραμμένη ὑπὸ λαῶν ἀλλοτρίων". Ἔδεσθε μετὰ σπουδῆς τὸ πάσχα· ἐγρηγορέναι γὰρ καὶ ἐπινενηφέναι δεῖ ἅπαντα τὸν μέλλοντα προσιέναι τῷ μεγάλῳ σώματι. Αἱ ὀσφύες ὑμῶν περιεζωσμέναι· παυσάσθω σαν αἱ διὰ γενέσεως πηγαὶ λελυμέναι, <αἱ> σαρκῶν περιπλο καὶ καὶ αἱ ῥυπαρώδεις ἡδοναί. Τὰ ὑποδήματα ὑμῶν ἐν τοῖς ποσίν· ὀρθοτο μοῦσαι βάσεις, στηρίγματα ἀχώλευτα· ἀληθείας γὰρ ῥιζώματα.

34.2 Τὰ ὑποδήματα ὑμῶν ἐν τοῖς ποσὶν ὑμῶν, ἃ Μωϋσῆς μὲν ὑπελύσατο,

Ἰησοῦς δὲ ὑπεδήσατο· "Λῦσαι" γάρ φησι "τὸ ὑπόδημα τῶν ποδῶν σου", ἵνα τὸ παρερχόμενον τοῦ νόμου δηλωθῇ, "Οὗ οὐκ εἰμὶ ἱκανὸς τὸν ἱμάντα τῶν ὑποδημάτων αὐτοῦ λῦσαι", ἵνα τὸ πάντοθεν περιεσφιγμένον τοῦ λόγου μηνυθῇ. 35.1 Αἱ βακτηρίαι ὑμῶν ἐν ταῖς χερσὶν ὑμῶν, τῆς θείας δυνάμεως τὰ σημεῖα, τῆς λογικῆς ἰσχύος τὰ ἐρείσματα, ῥάβδος ἡ διὰ Μωϋσέως, ῥάβδος ἡ διὰ Ἀαρών, ῥάβδος ἡ καρυΐνη, ῥάβδος ἡ τεμοῦσα βάθη θαλάσσης, <ῥάβδος> ἡ γλυκάνασα πικρίαν πηγῶν, ῥάβδος ἐφ' ἣν τὰ ἑπτὰ πνεύματα τὰ ἅγια ἀνεπαύσατο τοῦ Θεοῦ· "Πνεῦμα σοφίας καὶ συνέσεως,