The cross

and you will run to the unapproachable light, and, taking up the cross on your shoulders, you will follow him without turning back, that you may be glorified together with him and be shown to be an heir of the life that no longer changes nor deceives.

and scattering everything, and through the distribution to the poor laying up beforehand for themselves eternal wealth, they took up the cross and followed Christ—some perfected by martyrdom, as I have already told you, others contending in the ascetic life, and falling short of those in nothing in the conduct of this true philosophy.

but he, calling upon Christ for aid and arming himself with the sign of the cross, drove us off in anger and set himself in safety.

" For when he fought with the last enemy, death, through the trophy of the cross he triumphed.

" Take away therefore the cross itself.

Not understanding that this was an old figure of the body of Christ, who says through Jeremiah, "Against me they have devised a device, saying, Come, let us cast wood upon his bread" — namely the cross upon his body.

Every beam set up in an upright position is part of a cross.

All those tiers of images on the standards are the necklaces of crosses;

What image is there that the clay does not first shape upon a cross and a stake?

Let us, for a moment, attend to the reasoning of a robber or assassin, who is deterred from violating the laws by the gibbet or the wheel.

And such is he who fulfils the law and does the will of the Father, but is plainly inscribed upon a certain lofty wood, set forth as an example of divine virtue to those able to discern.

The cross's quality is a sign made of wood: