Chapter 7

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VI.

He that bore up the earth was borne up on a

tree

.

The

Lord

was

subjected

to

ignominy

with

naked

body

—

God

put

to

death

,

the

King

of

Israel

slain

!

Notes

1
By the holy Melito, bishop of the city of Ittica. [For Melito, in Lightfoot’s Apost. Fathers, consult part ii. vol. i. pp. 133, 328, 428, 443–446, 468–469, 494. See Lardner, Credib., vol. ii. 157, etc.; Westcott, Canon, p. 246. See Polycrates, infra; on which consult Schaff, History, etc., vol. ii. p. 736. Above all, see Routh, R. S., tom. i. pp. 113–153.]