Philip Schaff,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VIII, Remains of the Second and Third Centuries…
(1885)
“ The Syriac and the Hebrew use the word “suspended,” [2] as more clearly typifying the cross.The word Sabek [3] some have rendered remission, [4] others upright, [5] as if the meaning, agreeing with the popular belief, were—a goat walking erect up to a bush, and there standing erect caught by his horns, so as to be a plain type of the cross. For this reason it is not translated, because the single Hebrew word signifies in other languages [6] many things. ”
