...oppressed, and he was afflicted :" (more exactly, " It was exacted, and he became " answerable : ") " He was led as a lamb to the " slaughter, and as a...sheep before her shearers is " dumb, so he opened not his mouth. He was " taken from prison and from judgment ; and " who shall declare his generation ?...

...You, then, were hostile to the religion of the Lord of Hosts, by persecuting his people, while Israel was led '-' as a lamb to the slaughter ; and as a...sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth." And why is their disbelief of Jesus and his religion thus avowed and public ? because they...

...place on the Custom House steps, facingthe river, and opening my Bible, real the prophet Isaiah, " He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth,'' &c. I had nearly finished the chapter when, unlike the Eunuch who desired some one to...

...should ever be our reflection in the hour of attack, that to be like Christ we must not resist evil. "He was led as a lamb, to the slaughter, and as a...sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth." He passed meekly through torrents of abuse. It poured in upon him wave after wave, but...

...in Christ Jesus, and which, in his holy character, shone out in all the glory of its perfection. " He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his m >uth." When the soul prospers, patience enters into the temper, and forms the habits of the mind,...

...tried at the judgment hall; or if you please we will call it the tyrant's hull, and here we behold him led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. O blessed object! now in the depths of human degradation, in order to work out his dear...

...shall he not break, and a smoking flax shall he not quench. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted ; yet he opened not his mouth : he was led as a lamb...sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth."* This was intimated in his own descriptions of his character, " Learn of me, for I am meek...

...taking counsel to put him to death ; and withal so gentle and submissive, so meek and patient, that " he was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth." — Now he that saith he abideth in him, ought himself so to walk, even as he walked. A...

...rebels and enemies. In what manner did he bear his agonies; such as never were borne by any other ? " He was led as a lamb to the slaughter ; and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. He for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is now...

...patience ; when unjustly condemned, scourged, and led out to be crucified, he made no resistance, but " was led as a lamb to the slaughter ; and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth." When the soldiers nailed him to the cross, instead of reflecting against his murderers,...