1 “And God shows the power of the mystery of the cross in another way through Moses, when He said in the blessing with which Joseph was blessed, ‘His land is from the blessing of the Lord: from the seasons of heaven and the dews, and from the deep springs below, and from the seasonal fruits of the sun, and from the coming together of the months, and from the heights of the everlasting mountains, and from the heights of the hills, and from the ever-flowing rivers, and from the fruits of the richness of the earth; and let the things acceptable to Him who appeared in the bush come on the head and crown of Joseph. Let him be glorified among his brothers; his beauty is [like] that of a firstborn bull; his horns are the horns of a unicorn; with them he shall gore the nations together, from one end of the earth to the other.’ 2 Now, no one could say or prove that the horns of a unicorn represent any other thing or shape than the type that portrays the cross. For one beam stands upright, and its topmost part rises up into a horn when the other beam is fitted onto it, and the ends appear on both sides like horns joined to the one horn. And the part fixed in the middle, on which those who are crucified are held up, also sticks out like a horn, and it too looks like a horn shaped and fixed together with the other horns.⁠a 3 And the phrase ‘With them he shall gore the nations together, from one end of the earth to the other’ points to what has now come about among all the nations. For people from all the nations, having been gored in this way through this mystery, that is, pierced to the heart, have turned from worthless idols and demons to the worship of God. But to unbelievers the same shape is shown for their destruction and condemnation, just as among the people who came out of Egypt Amalek was defeated and Israel was victorious through the type of Moses’ outstretched hands and the name Jesus (Joshua), which the son of Nave (Nun) was given. 4 And the type and sign set up against the serpents that bit Israel appears to have been raised for the salvation of those who believe that, through the One who was to be crucified, death was proclaimed from then on for the serpent, but salvation for those bitten by it who take refuge in the One who sent His crucified Son into the world. For the Spirit of prophecy did not teach us through Moses to believe in the serpent, since it shows that the serpent was cursed by God from the beginning, and in Isaiah it indicates that it will be killed as an enemy by the great sword, which is Christ.