And the saying 'You have brought me down to the dust of death; for many dogs have encircled me, the assembly of the wicked have beset me round; they pierced my hands and my feet, they counted all my bones; they themselves looked and stared upon me; they divided my garments among themselves, and upon my clothing they cast lots'—as I said before, was a foretelling of by what kind of death the assembly of the wicked was about to condemn Him; whom He also calls dogs, signifying them as hunters, in that those who hunted Him were gathered together as those who contend for His condemnation—which is also written in the memoirs of His apostles as having come to pass.