Two types of pillar ideas
It appears then that two kinds of pillar ideas are hypothesized; for he would not, while accepting the one of Jacob with fame, have valued the ones of the opponents as impiously founded.
But there they print demonic images of idolatry notoriously; whereas the one of the forefather Jacob, he does not show to have the same character as those.
for that righteous man, who was struck by the Holy Spirit, first indeed sees the very bodily form of Christ being pre-drawn clearly, which is visible and having a local description; second, he records also the victorious trophy of the cross, being depicted as a ladder closely. For by this indeed he was supported from above, having drawn all things toward himself.
It is possible, then, to see and understand how the sufferings of the trials are called a ladder, when some speak unclearly [...]
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In inscriptione titulorum (fragmenta) ΕΙΣ ΤΑΣ ΕΠΙΓΡΑΦΑΣ ΤΗΣ ΣΤΗΛΟΓΡΑΦΙΑΣ 7 Φαίνεται τοίνυν ὅτι διττὰς ὑποτίθεται στηλῶν ἰδέας· οὐ γὰρ ἂν τὴν τοῦ Ἰακὼβ ἀποδεχόμενος εὐφήμως, ἐπετίμα τὰς τῶν ἐναντίων ὡς ἀσεβῶς ἱδρυμένας· ἀλλ' ἐκεῖναι μὲν εἰδωλολατρείας ἐκτυποῦσι φάσματα δαιμονιώδη κακοδόξως· ἡ δὲ τοῦ προπάτορος Ἰακὼβ, οὐ τὴν αὐτὴν ἐκείναις ἐμφαίνει πραγματείαν· ὁ γάρ τοι δίκαιος ἀνὴρ, ἐνηχηθεὶς ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι, πρῶτον μὲν αὐτὸ τὸ σωματικὸν εἶδος ὁρᾷ τοῦ Χριστοῦ προαναζωγραφούμενον ἐναργῶς, ὅπερ ἐστὶν ὁρατὸν καὶ τοπικῆς ἐχόμενον περιγραφῆς· δεύτερον δὲ καὶ τὸ νικηφόρον τοῦ σταυροῦ τρόπαιον, κλίμακι προσεμφερῶς ἀπεικαζόμενον, ἱστορεῖ. Τούτῳ γὰρ καὶ ἐπεστηρίχθη μετεώρως ἑλκύσας ἅπαντας πρὸς ἑαυτόν. Ἔστι γοῦν ἐννοοῦντας ἰδεῖν ὅπως ὀνόματι μὲν αὐτὰ τὰ τῶν πειρασμῶν πάθη κλιμακτῆρας ἔσθ' ὅτε κικλήσκουσί τινες ἀμφικρήμνους