race which rested on all Galilee [Pg 110] was removed by the
circumstance that the most celebrated Jewish academy, that of Tiberias,
belonged to it.

Let us now examine in how far Christ's abode at Nazareth served the
purpose of fulfilling the Old Testament prophecy. It is, throughout,
the doctrine of the prophets, that the Messiah, descending from the
family of David, sunk into utter lowliness, would at first appear
without any outward rank and dignity. The fundamental type for all
other passages here concerned is contained in that passage of Is. xi.
1, now under consideration: "And there cometh forth a twig from the
stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit," which is
strikingly illustrated in the following words of _Quenstedt_, in his
_Dissertatio de Germine Jehovae_, in the _Thesaurus theol. philol._ I.
p. 1015: "The stem of Jesse which, from low beginnings, was, in David,
raised to the glory of royal majesty, shall then not only be deprived
of all royal dignity, and all outward splendour which it received in
David, but shall again have been reduced to the private condition in
which it was before David; so that it shall present the appearance of a
stem deprived of all boughs and foliage, and having nothing left but
the roots; nevertheless out of that stem thus reduced and cut off, and,
as it appeared, almost dry, shall come forth a royal rod, and out of
its roots shall grow the twig upon whom shall rest the Spirit of the
Lord," &c. Quite in harmony with this, it is said in chap. liii. 2: "He
grew up before the Lord as a tender twig, and as a root out of a dry
ground." To [Hebrew: ncr], in chap. xi., corresponds [Hebrew: ivnq] in
chap. liii.; to [Hebrew: HTr] the [Hebrew: wrw]; to the cut-off stem
the dry land, with this difference, however, that by the latter
designation, the low condition of the Servant of God, generally, is
indicated; but His descent from the family of David sunk in lowliness,
is not specially pointed at thereby, although it is necessarily implied
in it. The same thought is further carried out in Ezek. xvii. 22-24. As
the descendant of the family of David sank in lowliness, the Messiah
appears in that passage as a small tender twig which is taken by the
Lord from a high cedar, and, being planted upon a high mountain, growls
up into a lofty tree, under which all the fowls dwell. In Jeremiah and
Zechariah, the Messiah, with reference to the image of a cut-off tree
used by Isaiah,