Kebra Nagast

And now I will explain this to you. The war of Amalek against Israel is the war of believers against the demons, and before Christ was crucified the demons conquered the believers. But when He stretched out His hand on the wood of the Cross because of the sin of Adam and his children, and when He stretched out His hand and His palm was pierced [with the nails], those who were sealed with the Sign of the Cross of Christ conquered them (i.e. the demons). The stretching out of the hand of Moses indicateth the Cross of Christ ; and that Aaron and Hor builded up stones indicateth the wood of the Cross and the nails. And Aaron indicateth the thief on the right, and Hor the thief on the left ; and Amalek indicateth the demons, and the king of Amalek indicateth Satan. And as concerning that they (the Amalekites) were conquered, this indicateth that we have conquered the demons and Satan by the Resurrection of Christ and by His Cross. And again when Israel went out of Egypt they came to bitter water, and they lacked drink because the water was bitter ; and first of all they murmured because of the bitterness of the water. And God said unto " Lift up thy rod, and cast it into the water, 1 Moses, and sign it with the Sign of the Cross right and left." Now mark what followeth. Had God said unto him, " Let it become sweet," then would the water not have become sweet ? But He made manifest that by the Sign of the Cross everything becometh good, and bitter water becometh sweet, and that by the might of the Cross of Jesus Christ every polluted thing becometh good and pleasant. And here I will declare unto thee yet other matters from the rest of the Prophets concerning His Crucifixion. David saith, " They have pierced for me my " now this referreth clearly to hands and my feet 2 the nails of His hands and His feet. And again he saith, ; 1 182 Compare Exodus xv, 25. 2 Psalm xxii, 16.