1
Barnabas continues with figures of the execution-tree.
2
He cites a prophetic saying about a tree bent down and then standing upright, with blood dropping from wood.
3
He recalls the battle with Amaleq: while Mosheh stretched out his hands Yisra'el prevailed, and when his hands fell the people lost ground.
4
He reads Mosheh's outstretched form as a sign of the execution-tree and of the one who would suffer.
5
He also recalls the bronze serpent lifted by Mosheh so those who looked in trust would live.
6
He argues that the serpent was not itself an elohim but a sign through which trust was tested.
7
He combines this with prophetic language of pierced hands and with the stone imagery already used.
8
He turns to Tehilliym 110 and asks how the Anointed can be called both son of Daviyd and Master by Daviyd.
9
He concludes from this that the Anointed exceeds a merely ordinary descent-title in the author's own christological interpretation.