As the serpent in the desert (Jn 3:13-15)
The Latin:
Si terréna dixi vobis, et non créditis : quómodo, si díxero vobis cæléstia, credétis ? Et nemo ascéndit in cælum, nisi qui descéndit de cælo, Fílius hóminis, qui est in cælo. Et sicut Móyses exaltávit serpéntem in desérto, ita exaltári opórtet Fílium hóminis : ut omnis qui credit in ipsum, non péreat, sed hábeat vitam ætérnam.
The English:
If I have spoken to you earthly things, and you believe not; how will you believe, if I shall speak to you heavenly things? And no man hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him, may not perish; but may have life everlasting.
