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And what is treated as natural philosophy in Plato's Timaeus concerning the Son of God, when he says, "He placed him crosswise in the universe," he likewise said, having borrowed it from Moses. For in the writings of Moses it is recorded that at that time, when the Israelites went out from Egypt and were in the wilderness, venomous beasts met them — vipers and asps and every kind of serpent — which were putting the people to death; and that, by inspiration and operation coming from God, Moses took bronze and made a figure of a cross and set it up upon the holy tabernacle, and said to the people, "If you look upon this figure and believe, you shall be saved by it." And when this was done, he recorded that the serpents died, and handed down that the people thus escaped death. Plato, reading these things and not understanding accurately, nor perceiving that it was the figure of a cross but taking it to be the figure of the letter X (chi), said that the power next after the first God was placed crosswise in the universe. And as for his speaking of a third, this is because, as we said before, he read in what Moses said that the Spirit of God moved over the waters; for he gives the second place to the Word that is from God, which he said was placed crosswise in the universe, and the third place to the Spirit that was said to move over the water, saying, "And the third things about the third." And how the prophetic Spirit foreshowed through Moses that a conflagration would take place, hear. He spoke thus: "An ever-living fire shall come down and shall devour as far as the abyss below." It is not, then, that we hold the same opinions as others, but that all imitate our teachings in what they say. Among us, then, these things may be heard and learned from people who do not even know the characters of the letters — unlearned and barbarous in speech, but wise and faithful in mind, some even maimed and blind in their eyes — so as to understand that these things have come about not by human wisdom, but are spoken by the power of God.