 | 1811 - 632 pages
...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... | |
 | John Henry Hobart - 1804 - 316 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 490 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - 520 pages
...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,... | |
 | J S. Pipe - 1813 - 646 pages
...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... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 520 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 622 pages
...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.... | |
 | Samuel Eyles Pierce - 1815 - 644 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Proudfit - 1815 - 408 pages
...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... | |
 | Thaddeus Mason Harris - 1819 - 390 pages
...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... | |
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He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not his mouth. 
