Now that which was related by Moses and prophesied by the patriarch Jacob, He shall wash His robe in wine and His garment in the blood of the grape, receive remission of sins through Him His robe, in whom signified that He would wash in His blood those who believed Him. For the Holy Spirit has called those who He is ever present in power, and will be visibly present in His second Advent.
And when the word speaks of the blood of the grape, He signifies by this trope that Christ has blood indeed, yet not from the seed of a man but from the power of God. For just as it was not man but God that begat the blood of the vine, so also He signified before hand that the blood of Christ would not be of human generation but of God’s power. For this prophecy, Gentlemen, which I have adduced, proves that Christ is not mere man of human origin, begotten in the common way of men.