...esteemed by. his people. (Deut. xxxii. 15.) Here the Messiah's prophetic complaint was fulfilled, ' I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair ; I hid not my fece from shame and spitting : I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed....

...Jehovah hath opened mine " ear, and I was not rebellious; neither did I with" draw myself backward. I gave my back to the " smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off " the hair : my face I hid not from shame and spit" ting. For the Lord Jehovah is my helper ; there^* fore I am...

...himself; Isa. lix, 4, 5, "He wakeneth. morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned; the Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious," or, I was obedient: and so it is all one in what sense you take the word (mi) whether in the more common...

...18. xxv. 18. xxx. 14. Eph. ?i. 17. Heb. iv. 12. Rev. i. 16. ii. 16. xix. 15, 21. No. 1082. — 1. 6. I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them...the hair, I hid not my face from shame and spitting ] Mr. Hanway has recorded a scene differing little, if at all, from that alluded to by the prophet....

...the lowest. To pluck a man's beard in the East is the highest mark of insult which can be shewn. " I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair." Isaiah, clv 6. A fine trived this, which to me seems a most improbable 1°7 part of the story : —...

...himself; Isa. lix, 4, 5, "He wakeneth, morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned; the Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious," or, I was obedient: and so it is all one in what sense you take the word (rni) whether in the more...

...with blackness, and I made sackcloth their covering, when I found myself despised and rejected of men; I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them...the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting. " Thus as MAN I bore all the reproach of man; and I bore it all for man, that I should come again in...

...Christ teacheth us not only by precept, but by example. Isaiah 1. 6, " I gave my back to the sinkers, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair. I hid not my face from shame and spitting." Thirdly, " If any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy eloak also."...

...so. noble a captain, who hath gone before me with so undaunted a spirit, that he saith of himself, ' I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair/ The Lord God will help me; therefore, I shall not be confounded. Shall I be ashamed of a pillory for...

...unnaturally associated vegetation. CHAPTER L. VEKSB 6. / gave my back to the smiters, and my cheek to them that plucked off the hair. I hid not my face from shame and spitting. Observations of actual occurrences, made on the spot, are certainly most effective and confident illustrations....