| 1883 - 684 pages
...value to purchase their freedom ; therefore He came, and willingly suffered and died in their stead. " He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth.1' What a wondrous exchange ! The shepherd dies, and the sheep go free. " This was compassion... | |
| Harrison William Weir - 1879 - 164 pages
...mamma, " how quiet and patient the Sheep was?" Then she taught him the text about Jesus, 'As a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth,' and told him she hoped he would try to be gentle and patient like Jesus, the " Lamb of God." 'Hiť, r a... | |
| mrs. Herman Gaskoin - 1879 - 148 pages
...blindfolded and even spat on Him. Yet the Divine Sufferer accepted it all in silent meekness ; as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His Mouth. And at last Pilate was ready. He was unwillingly obliged to investigate the matter, because the Holy One... | |
| Emanuel Swedenborg, Samuel Mills Warren - 1880 - 868 pages
...these words in Isaiah : " He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth; He is led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth" (liii. 7). His last temptation was in Gethsernane (Matt, xxvi.; Mark xiv.), and afterwards... | |
| rev. Robert Gilchrist - 1881 - 186 pages
...again : when He suffered, He threatened not; but committed Himself to Him that judgeth righteously." 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 apostle Peter applies this to the life and practice of believers. He says, " Servants,... | |
| Francis Edmund C. Byng (5th earl of Strafford.) - 1881 - 288 pages
...our Divine Example showed us that although when He was reviled He reviled not again, that although He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth, yet His meekness was dignity, and His patience true heroism ; and since He suffered all... | |
| Joseph Augustus Seiss - 1882 - 478 pages
...enforce His supremacy. Both these characters are essential, hence, both appear in the description. " He was led as a Lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth" (Is. 53 : 7) ; but He is yet to " send forth judgment unto victory" (Matt. 12: 20). As the... | |
| Henry Hawkes - 1883 - 82 pages
...shall be like him. 2. Christ suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps. 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 humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Christ... | |
| Frederick Arthur C. Lillingston - 1883 - 136 pages
...will be often to endure wrong, and take it cheerfully as a sign of our being the followers of Him who was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and like a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth. But now I would apply this to three branches of our lives. And first to our thoughts. I... | |
| Joseph Sanderson - 1883 - 514 pages
...attempted a word of defence. Her charge against him was similar to that against a greater One, who was " led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth." In the one case as in the other, the power of evil under the auspices of Jezebel was triumphant,... | |
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