98. I would like to recite the whole psalm to you, so
disobedient and gainsaying people, to those who went in a way which was not right', And Isaiah himself said that he was going to rise again, His grave was taken away from the midst?, and I will give the rich in exchange for his death3.
And in other passages David spoke in an allegorical figure of his suffering and his cross, in those texts from the twenty-first (twentysecond) psalm: They pierced my hands and my feet, they numbered all my bones, they observed me and looked on me.
They parted my garments among them and on my raiment they cast lots¢.
When they crucified him in the process of fixing in the nails they pierced his hands and his feet, and those who crucified him divided his garments among them, casting lots, each dividing what he wanted to choose according to the fall of the die. And yet you allege that this psalm was not spoken with reference to Christ because you are altogether purblind and do not understand that nobody who was called an anointed king in your race ever was pierced in his hands and feet while still alive and died by this mysterious sign, that is, by crucifixion, except this Jesus alone.
98.
I would like to recite the whole psalm to you, so that you may learn of his piety towards the Father, and how he referred everything to him, and how he even asked to be saved from this death by him; I will also show in this psalm what sort of people were those who attacked him and demonstrate that he really did become a man capable of human sufferings."
[There follows a quotation of Ps. 21(22) :2-24.] 99.
When I recited this I went on, "I will demonstrate to you by this argument that the whole Psalm is to be referred to Christ, and by going through it again.
The very lsa. 65:2.
*Jsa. 57:2 (LXX).
§JTsa, 53:9 (LXX).
4Ps, 21(22) :2-5,