“master of Israel” down to learn the simple lesson taught by “the brazen serpent.” The bitten Israelite of old was to be healed by simply looking at the serpent of brass on the pole: the dead sinner now is to get life by simply looking at Jesus on the cross and Jesus on the throne. The Israelite was not told to look at his wound, though it was the sense of his wound that made him look: the dead sinner is not told to look at his sins, though it is the sense of his sins that will make him look. One