Moses my servant is dead

On what is written: Moses my servant is dead. We must recount Moses’ death; unless we understand how Moses dies, we cannot see how Jesus reigns. If you look on Jerusalem overthrown, the altar abandoned, nowhere sacrifices or offerings or drink-offerings, nowhere priests or Levites — when you see all this cease, say: Moses the servant of God is dead. But when you see the nations enter faith, churches raised, altars consecrated by Christ’s precious blood, priests ministering the word of God by the Spirit’s grace — then say that Jesus has taken the principate after Moses: not Jesus son of Nun, but Jesus the Son of God. When you see that our Passover, Christ, has been sacrificed and we eat unleavened bread of sincerity and truth; when you see the church’s fruits thirtyfold, sixtyfold, a hundredfold — widows, virgins, martyrs; when you see Israel’s seed multiplied from those born not of blood nor of the will of flesh, but of God; when you see God’s people keeping a sabbath rest not by idle withdrawal from common life but by rest from the work of sin — then say: Moses is dead, and Jesus the Son of God holds the principate. In a certain booklet outside the canon the figure is drawn of two Moseses — one alive in spirit, one dead in body. The empty letter of the law is Moses dead in the body; if you can remove the veil and understand that the law is spiritual, that is Moses alive in the spirit.