1
Barnabas asks whether water and the execution-tree were foreshadowed.
2
He cites Yirmeyahu's accusation that the people forsook the living fountain and dug broken cisterns.
3
He joins this with prophetic images of Tziyon, planted trees, and water.
4
He reads the blessed person of Tehilliym 1 - planted beside streams and yielding fruit - as an image of those who descend into water burdened with sin and rise bearing fruit in the heart.
5
He also cites Yechezqel's river and trees whose leaves do not fail and whose fruit renews.
6
He concludes that the water signifies immersion joined to release from sins, while the tree imagery points toward life and the execution-tree in his interpretive system.