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these pages, as to lead them seriously to pray to the God of their fathers, - the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, that he would give them a heart rightly to understand this prophecy of Isaiah! Then I have no doubt that the prophecy of Zechariah xii. 10-14, would also be very soon fulfilled with respect to them. I would now conclude this chapter in the words of the pious psalmist, O that the salvation of

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Israel were come out of Zion! When the 'Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people, 'Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.'

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THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.

In the twenty-second Psalm, David, speaking in the first person, describes a series of the most dreadful sufferings, which correspond, in the most particular and minute manner, with the sufferings of Jesus, as related by the evangelists. I shall place the following quotations from the psalmist and the evangelists, in opposite columns, that the reader may the more easily discern the exact correspondence between them.

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thered unto him the 'whole band of soldiers. And they stripped him, ' and put on him a scarlet ' robe. And when they

had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon

his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they 'bowed the knee before

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As we read of nothing in the history of David's life, which at all corresponds with the language of this Psalm, we must conclude, that though the psalmist here speaks in the first person, yet the Spirit of God, who inspired him. to express himself as above, had some other person in view; and when we see how exactly the language corresponds with the history given us by the evangelists, of the last sufferings of Jesus, we cannot avoid coming to the conclu

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