...nailed to the cross, and his body left to its own weight by these fastenings for six hours: but' he wus led as a lamb to the slaughter ; and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. When he was reviled, he reviled not again,— when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed...

...sorrows and acquainted with grief. He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth. He was led as a .lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers, is dumb, so 'he opened not his mouth. "When he wa,s reviled, he reviled not again. When he suffered, he threatened not." Patient...

...antitype. Christ is " a lamb without blemish and " without spot." He was " chosen of God and " precious." He " was led as a lamb to the " slaughter, and as...sheep before her shearers " is dumb, so He opened not His mouth." For " when He was reviled, He reviled not again ; " when He suffered, He threatened not...

...suffered for us, Psal. xl. 7- ' Lo, I come,' said he, Even in the deepest points of his humiliation, * he was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth,' to oppose the humbling treatment he was esposed to. Man fell off from God by his ambition,...

...all the reproaches and indignities offered him by his enemies ; and suffered himself at last to be " led as a lamb to the slaughter; and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth." The apostle, exhorting against strife and vain-glory, and to promote their opposites, lowliness...

...good. He preached patience, and when he was reviled he reviled not again: He suffered himself to be led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth, Matt. viii. 20. ix. 29. Phil. ii. 7. Acts x. 38. 1 Pet. ii. 23. and Isa. liii. 7. He preached...

...the estimation of God. Let them call it sheepishness, if they will : it is only being like him, who was led as a lamb to the slaughter ; and as a sheep...shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth : and I believe you are ambitious of no higher honour, than to be a humble imitator of your Divine Master....

...meekness of the holy and immaculate Lamb of God, who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth; " He was led as a lamb to the slaughter; and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth." The paschal lamb was to be slain at even, or about three o'clock in the afternoon; thus...

...patience and fortitude with which he sustained them. " When he was reviled, he reviled not again : He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth." Enlarged views of the Redeemer's love will not only tend to reconcile to all the difficulties...

...circumstances the blessed Saviour gave these qualities the expressive N recommendation of his own example. " He was led as a lamb to the slaughter ; and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth." ii. OUR LORD, designing to join WISDOM and INNOCENCE together, proposes the serpent for...