How unmistakably plain were Isaiah's prophecies of Christ's sufferings and death! "Who hath believed our report? "the prophet inquires, "and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? For He shall grow up before Him as a 226 tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from Him; He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

Hvor klare og tydelige var ikke Esajas profetier om Kristi lidelse og død! "Hvo troede det, vi hørte, for hvem åbenbaredes Herrens arm?" spørger profeten. "Han skød op som en kvist for hans åsyn, som et rodskud af tør jord, uden skønhed og pragt til at drage vort blik, uden ydre, så vi syntes om ham, ringeagtet, skyet af folk, en smerternes mand og kendt med sygdom, en, man skjuler sit ansigt for, agtet ringe, vi regned ham ikke."