And that two comings of this Christ were to take place symbolically was foretold also by Moses, as I said before, through the symbol of the goats offered at the fast. And again, in what Moses and Joshua did, the same thing was being proclaimed beforehand symbolically and in word. For the one of them, stretching out his hands, remained upon the hill until evening, his hands being held up—which shows the type of nothing else than the cross; while the other, who was renamed by the name Jesus, led the battle, and Israel was victorious.
And this too was given to be understood as having taken place in those two holy men and prophets of God, namely, that one of them could not bear both mysteries—I mean the type of the cross and the type of the calling upon the name; for this strength is, and was, and shall be of one alone, whose name every principality dreads, being in travail because they are to be destroyed through Him. Our Christ, therefore, who suffered and was crucified, was not cursed by the Law, but showed that He alone would save those who do not depart from faith in Him.
And those in Egypt who were saved, when the firstborn of the Egyptians were perishing, the blood of the Passover delivered, the blood smeared on both doorposts and on the lintel. For the Passover was Christ, who was afterward sacrificed, as Isaiah also said: 'He was led as a sheep to the slaughter.' And that on the day of the Passover you seized Him, and likewise crucified Him at the Passover, is written. And as the blood of the Passover saved those in Egypt, so also the blood of Christ shall deliver from death those who have believed.
Was God, then, going to be deceived, if this sign had not been on the doors? I do not say so, but rather that it proclaimed beforehand the salvation that was to come to the human race through the blood of Christ. For the symbol of the scarlet cord, which the spies sent by Joshua the son of Nun gave to Rahab the harlot in Jericho, telling her to bind it to the window through which she let them down so that they might escape the enemy, likewise signified the symbol of the blood of Christ, by which those of all the nations who were formerly fornicators and unjust are saved, receiving forgiveness of sins and sinning no more.