| Henry Woodward - 1866 - 528 pages
...amply verified: He shall neither strive nor cry, neither shall any man hear His voice in the streets. 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 was accused of crimes which he knew not, and at which His inmost soul recoiled,... | |
| John Young - 1866 - 538 pages
...his own free will and purpose, he encountered the agony, the terror, and the shame of crucifixion. " He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth." It was indispensable to the success of the mission of divine love that the Incarnate should... | |
| George Frederick De Teissier - 1866 - 328 pages
...gentleness, and patience, and love, and suffering for the truth's sake ; victory for Himself and us, when "He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb so He opened not His mouth;" victory in us also, whensoever He has taught us to follow His own example, how to bless... | |
| John Kitto - 1867 - 544 pages
...the passage that most perplexed him, and which indeed was the one that Philip had heard him read : ' He was led as a lamb to the slaughter ; and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not his rnouth. In his humiliation his judgment was taken away ; and who shall declare his generation ?... | |
| Edward Garbett - 1867 - 224 pages
...indignant, and have shown yourselves angry in words and acts ? Our Lord did not even open 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 next time something is done which makes you feel angry, or you think your brothers,... | |
| William Meynell Whittemore - 1867 - 592 pages
...was on earth. " When' He was reviled He reviled not again ; when He suffered He threatened not." " He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth." There was meekness. God Himself, in the person of His dear Son, was mocked and scourged,... | |
| Thomas G. Beharrell - 1867 - 516 pages
...not to say surpassed, by^any act on record, save the actual sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ, "who was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers, is dumb, so, he opened not his mouth." He submitted without any resistance, to be bound by his honored parent, and laid upon the... | |
| Joseph Parker - 1867 - 376 pages
...his power ; he was still the wonderful man whom the winds and the sea obeyed ; yet he consented to be led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. He had been accustomed to the idea from before the foundation of the world. Even in his... | |
| Joseph Parker - 1867 - 370 pages
...his power ; he was still the wonderful man whom the winds and the sea obeyed ; yet he consented to be led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. He had been accustomed to the idea from before the foundation of the world. Even in his... | |
| Jesus Christ, Emily Durrant - 1868 - 272 pages
...undergone the wounding, the bruising, the chastisement which He bore in silence for our sakes ; for He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not his mouth. It waa in the middle of the night when He was seized by his enemies, but no sleep bad closed... | |
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