As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
"as soon as they said, "we have sinned", immediately their iniquity was expiated; and they had the good news brought them "of the healing of the soul", as it is written, "make thee a seraph"; and he does not say a serpent; and this is it: "and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live", רפואת הנפש, "through the healing of the soul":''