ent has a connection with them. They are predicted by the very
page which records the fall. "And I will put enmity between thee and the
woman, and between thy seed and her seed: it shall bruise thy head, and
thou shalt bruise his heel." Under the patriarchal economy there was a
significant allusion to them in the offering up of Isaac. The Mosaic
types were prophecies. The paschal lamb; the smitten rock; the brazen
serpent; and the scape-goat on the day of expiation, exhibited this
feature of Messiah's character. Well nigh every page of the prophets is
marked by blood and sorrow. The Psalmist, in thrilling tone, enquires,
"My God, my God why hast thou forsaken Me?" And in the last struggles of
death Jesus quoted the passage in its application to himself. The
fifty-third chapter of Isaiah is an unapproachable description of a
suffering person. Its reference to Christ has been extorted from the
Jew, and is confidently believed by every Christian. The notion of two
Messiahs--the one suffering and the other conquering--is an unworthy
subterfuge, and stands opposed to both fact and Scripture. Daniel is
second only to Isaiah in his minute and powerful description of the
Redeemer's sufferings. Zechariah almost closes the book by the startling
cry, "Awake, O sword, against my Shepherd, and against the man that is my
fellow, saith the Lord of hosts: smite the Shepherd, and the sheep shall
be scattered; and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones."

That these Scriptures have been fulfilled who can doubt that believes the
gospels? Just before the Saviour's ascension, and while yet partaking of
the valedictory feast with his disciples, "He said unto them, these are
the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all
things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses, and in
the Prophets, and in the Psalms concerning Me. Then opened He their
understanding that they might understand the Scriptures, and said unto
them, thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to
rise from the dead the third day." We pass by the pain and hunger and
thirst which are the attributes of humanity; but from his very
incarnation may it be said that his sufferings began. Mark the meanness
of his birth; the poverty of his circumstances; the persecution which
drove Him from his infant-home, and think of his manner of life prior to
the public announcement of his character, and you say with the