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How the Prophets foreshadowed Him Thus Jacob his son departed to the land of Laba (Laban), the country of his mother's brother, with his staff only, and there he made many cattle, and acquired beasts both clean and unclean, and he begot twelve sons, and he revealed baptism, and returned to his own country where he received a blessing from Isaac his father. And in like manner our Lord Christ came down from and the staff heaven, the Word of Godhead by Itself of Jacob wherewith he pastured his sheep is our Lady Mary our salvation. And moreover, the staff signifieth the wood of the Cross whereby, being crucified upon it, He redeemed His flock and took possession of us from among the Jews, and the heathen, and the Gentiles. And He chose for Himself Twelve Apostles, and they made the people believe in all the earth and in every country, and He went up to heaven to His Father. Thus Moses departed to the country of Midian, and there he held converse with God, Who made him to learn and to know the belief in the resurrection from the dead ; Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And by means of his staff (or, rod) He endowed him with the and he begot two sons. power to perform miracles And this showeth clearly that we shall be saved by the " I am the Trinity. As the mouth of God proclaimed, " " the this of Father and the God God of Abraham " " of Isaac this of the Son and the God of Jacob " when He saith this it is of the Holy Ghost indica" I am not the ting the Trinity clearly and plainly. of his fathers ; God of the dead, but the God of the living," l for they all are alive with God and by this the Resurrection of ; the dead is to be understood. Jonah was swallowed up and cast into the belly of the great fish ; and our Redeemer went down into the heart of the earth, and rose again the third day. And Daniel was cast into the pit of the lions, and [the king and the lords] sealed it with their seals and he rose up ; 1 Matthew xxii, 32. 219