This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...with anguish, and with unutterable pity, at the spectacle. The men who lived with Messiah and who beheld His passion, have not left to us such pathetic records as these. This greatest and most far-seeing of those who "spake beforehand of the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow," dwells with peculiar ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...with anguish, and with unutterable pity, at the spectacle. The men who lived with Messiah and who beheld His passion, have not left to us such pathetic records as these. This greatest and most far-seeing of those who "spake beforehand of the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow," dwells with peculiar tenderness on His lonely and forsaken lot, on the cup of human anguish of which His soul alone knew all the bitterness, and of that desert path, the whole gloom and horror of which He alone explored. Was is by chance, I say, that this royal prophetic spirit was led to fathom these depths of Messiah's sorrow, and to strike thus early the sad key-note of His history? Or had he himself tasted this cup of bitterness? Had he himself, in his finite human measure, been "despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief"? Ah! it is the sorrowful who alone can comprehend the sufferers. It is those who have passed through the high school of discipline, who alone know the meaning and can gauge the measure of human grief. Isaiah knew beforehand the fellowship of his Master's sufferings; he was led by the same Hand through the same depths. He had passed through that which fitted him for vivid sympathy with One, who after a life of Divine ministry was left to agonize on the Cross alone. He was of that elect band of whom the Saviour spake--they are the peerage of earth and of heaven--who can drink of the cup which Messiah drank of, and can endure the baptism with which He was baptized. And in painting, with a touch whose pathetic tenderness remains unrivalled still, that mystery of sorrow--the sorrow of sorrows of earth's history, and of heaven's--he was but painting out, as the Spirit taught him, the outlines of a ...
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