"At this Trypho, with some hint of annoyance, but overawed by the Scriptures, as his face showed, said to me: 'God's words are holy, but your expositions [or translations] are artificial--or blasphemous, I should say.'"[68] To complete the proof, it is shown that the very name of Jesus was foretold. When Moses changed the name of his successor from _Auses_ to _Jesus_, it was a prophecy, as Scripture shows. "The Lord said unto Moses: Say to this people, Behold I send my angel before thy face that he may guard thee in the way, that he may lead thee into the land that I have prepared for thee. Give heed unto him ... for he will not let thee go, for my name is in him."[69] This is confirmed by Zechariah's account of the High Priest Joshua. Furthermore, the chronology of the book of Daniel, when carefully worked out, proves to have contained the prediction of the precise date at which Christ should come, and at that precise date Christ came. Barnabas discovers another prophecy of Jesus in an unlikely place. "Learn, children of love," he says," that Abraham, who first gave circumcision, looked forward in spirit unto Jesus, when he circumcised, for he received dogmata in three letters. For it saith: And Abraham circumcised of his house men 18 and 300. What then was the knowledge given unto him? Mark that it says 18 first, and then after a pause 300. 18 [IH in Greek notation] there thou hast Jesus. And because the cross in T [= 300 in Greek notation] was to have grace, it {193} saith 300 as well. It shows Jesus in the two letters, and in the one the cross."[70] We now reach the prophecies of the cross, and, as the method is plain, a few references may suffice, taken this time from Tertullian (_c._ 10):-- _Genesis_ 22, 6: Isaac carrying the wood for the sacrifice of himself. _Genesis_ 37, 28: Joseph sold by his brethren. _Deuteronomy_ 33,17: Moses' blessing of Joseph. (The unicorn's horns, with some arrangement, form a cross: cf. _Psalm_ 22). _Exodus_ 17, 11: Moses with his arms spread wide. _Numbers_ 21, 9: The brazen serpent. _Psalm_ 96, 10: The Lord hath reigned _from the tree, e ligno_ (though the Jews have cut out the last words). _Isaiah_ 9, 6: The government upon his shoulder. _Jeremiah_ 11, 19: Let us cast wood (_lignum_) into his bread. _Isaiah_ 53, 8, 9: For the transgression of my people is he stricken ... and his sepulture is taken from the midst (_i.e._ the resurrection). _Amos_ 8, 9: I will cause the sun to go down at noon.