Archelaus

“ Now it was also from the time when our Lord Jesus Christ began to be prophesied of and looked for that there began to be princes from Judah and leaders of the people; and these, again, failed just at the approach of His advent. If, then, the veil is taken away which is put on in that reading of theirs, they will understand the true virtue of the circumcision; and they will also discover that the generation of Him whom we preach, and His cross, and all the things that have happened in the history of our Lord, are those very matters which had been predicted of that Prophet. ”

“ In this saying I perceive a great prophecy delivered by the servant Moses, as by one cognizant [3] that He who is to come is indeed to be possessed of greater authority than himself, and nevertheless is to suffer like things with him, and to show like signs and wonders. For there, Moses after his birth was placed by his mother in an ark, and exposed beside the banks of the river; [4] here, our Lord Jesus Christ, after His birth by Mary His mother, was sent off in flight into Egypt through the instrumentality of an angel. ”

“ There, Moses led forth his people from the midst of the Egyptians, and saved them; [6] and here, Jesus, leading forth His people from the midst of the Pharisees, transferred them to an eternal salvation. [7] There, Moses sought bread by prayer, and received it from heaven, in order that he might feed the people with it in the wilderness; [8] here, my Lord Jesus by His own power satisfied [9] with five loaves five thousand men in the wilderness. [10] There, Moses when he was tried was set upon the mountain and fasted forty days ”