1 “Moreover, the instruction that twelve bells be attached to the high priest’s [robe], which hung down to the feet, was a symbol of the twelve apostles, who hang from the power of Christ, the eternal Priest; and it is through their voice that the whole earth has been filled with the glory and grace of God and of His Christ.⁠a That is why David also says: ‘Their sound has gone forth into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.’ 2 And Isaiah speaks as if in the person of the apostles, when they say to Christ that it is not their own report that people believe, but the power of Him who sent them. So he says: ‘Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? We have preached before Him as if [He were] a child, as if a root in a dry ground.’ (And the rest of the prophecy already quoted, in order.) 3 And when the passage speaks as if from the lips of many, ‘We have preached before Him,’ and adds, ‘as if a child,’ it means that the wicked would become subject to Him and obey His command, and that all would become like one child. You can see the same thing in the body: although its members are counted as many, together they are called one, and they are one body. For a people and a church, though made up of many individuals, are in fact one thing, called and addressed by one name. 4 And in short, sirs,” I said, “by going through all the other ordinances of Moses I can show that they were types, symbols, and announcements of the things that would happen to Christ, of those who were foreknown to believe in Him, and of the things Christ Himself would also do. But since what I have now listed seems to me sufficient, I return to the order of the discussion.