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The Sign of the Cross in the Old Testament (Theodore Rokas)

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In his first epistle to the Corinthians, Saint Paul mentions that ‘the Jews seek a sign’ (1 Cor. 1, 22), that is they wanted a supernatural sign, such as resurrection of the dead, or healing of the demonically possessed, which would make them believe in the preaching concerning the Cross. So they sought this supernatural sign, ignoring and ignorant of all the signs and wonders that God had shown them in the past, every time they found themselves in danger. Of course, the sign they were looking for could only have been the Cross, which, on the one hand is foreshadowed throughout the whole of the Old Testament and, on the other, was ever-present, preserving the people of God from ...

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