And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
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Irenaeus of Lyons
AD 202
That men can be saved in no other way from the old wound of the serpent than by believing in Him who, in the likeness of sinful flesh, is lifted up from the earth upon the tree of martyrdom, and draws all things to Himself,