Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Remains of the Second and Third Centuries/Melito, the Philosopher/Chapter 13

VI.

Two Scholia on Genesis XXII. 13.

The Syriac and the Hebrew use the word &#8220;suspended,&#8221; as more clearly typifying the cross.

The word Sabek some have rendered remission, others upright, as if the meaning, agreeing with the popular belief, were&#8212;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.&#160; For this reason it is not translated, because the single Hebrew word signifies in other languages many things.&#160; To those, however, who ask it is proper to give an answer, and to say that Sabek denotes lifted up.