..."His disciples forsook hint "and fled." Isaiah again, speaking in the person of Messiah, «ays, " l gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks " to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not iWj" face from shame and spitting, chap. 51. 6. MicaS, vrho prophecied of Christ...

...brutish men, is foretold and described by one of the prophets, and referred to its proper principle: "I gave my "back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them who pluck"ed off the hair. I hid not my face from shame and spit"ting. For the Lord God will help me;...

...The Lord " God, says he, hath opened mine ear, and I was not " rebellious, neither turned away back : I gave my " back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that « plucked off the hair : I hid not my face from shame tc and spitting : for the Lord God will help me, there«' fore...

...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, c. 1. v. 6. trived this, which to me seems a most improbable 2or part of the story...

...Lord JEHOVAH hath opened mine ear; And I was not rebellious ; Neither did I withdraw myself backward. 6 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 spitting. 7 For the Lord JEHOVAH is my helper ; Therefore...

...man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. (53 Is. 3.) 15. Did Christ endure very severe sufferings? I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. (50 Is. 6.) Surely he hath borne our griefs,and...

...Isaiah 1. 5. THE Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair : I hid not my face from shame and spitting. For the Lord God will help me, therefore shall...

...' Thou art fairer than the children of men.' At other times for Him in His name, as when it says, ' I gave My back to the smiters, and My cheeks to them that plucked off the hair,' or the like. In such passages the writers, are instructed to personate Him, and use words...

...himself,, saying, " The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair ; I hid not my face from shame and spitting." (Isa. 1. 5, 6.) The same Prophet elsewhere predicts...

...Isai. 1. 5. THE Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. For the Lord God will help me, therefore shall...