Remains of the Second and Third Centuries

The Syriac and the Hebrew use the word “suspended,”³⁶²⁹ as more clearly typifying the cross.

The word Sabek³⁶³⁰ some have rendered remission,³⁶³¹ others upright,³⁶³² as if the meaning, agreeing with the popular belief, were—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. For this reason it is not translated, because the single Hebrew word signifies in other languages³⁶³³ many things. To those, however, who ask it is proper to give an answer, and to say that Sabek denotes lifted up.³⁶³⁴