...sufferings, and diawn it against our surety as a sharp sword, which he thus addresses : ' Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow ; smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.* (Zuch. xiii. 7.) As to the other principal...

...sufferings, and drawn it against our surety as a sharp sword, which he thus addresses : ' Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow ; smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.' (Zuch. xiii. 7.) As to the other principal...

...and roused up to pierce the heart of the blessed Redeemer. Hence it is said. Zech. xiii. 7. * Awake O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that...fellow, saith the Lord of hosts : smite the shepherd.' If divine justice had descended from heaven in a visible form, and hanged up millions of sinners in...

...eoeternity of God and his Son ? Let us notiee another text whieh evidently respeete Jesus Christ: " Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow." May it not be reasonably supposed, thai fellow in tkig text means the same a* equul in thtt other ?...

...of God and his Son ? Let us notiee another text which evidently respeets Jesus Christ : " Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow." May it not be reasonably supposed, thai fellow iu this text means the same us equal in the other ?...

...roll ; " And mountains of Almighty wrath " Lay heayy on his soul." To hear the Father say, Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, (a) I say this must have been a tremendous sound, and might ,well thrill through every nerve of the...

...sin, as Isaiah expresses it ; mi that his disciples for a season should forsake him ; Zech. xiii. 7. v Awake, О sword, against my Shepherd, and against...Lord of hosts. Smite the Shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered." Which was fulfilled ; Mat. xxvii. 56. And besides all this, his sufferings from the...

...reversed or changed. The awful sentence is gone forth, " Without blood there is no remission!" " Awake, O sword! against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of Hosts." Love to man, joined with a zeal for the honour and support of the Father's government, — these motives,...

...coequal with the Father, presented himself ns his substitute. But did it ? When the Lord of Hosts cried, "Awake, О sword, against my shepherd and against the man that is my fellow, and smite the shepherd,'1 did it slumber on ? Did it not awake and sheathe itself in his very vitals...

...Father, too, bears an equal testimony to his greatness, even in the depth of his humiliation : " Awake, O sword, against my Shepherd, and against the man that...of hosts : smite the Shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered." (Zech. xiii. 7.) Happy flock that has such a Shepherd ! How lively was the joy of David...