of His sufferings openeth not His mouth. He was brought as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before her shearer is dumb, so He open- eth not His mouth. In His humiliation His judgment was taken away ; who shall declare His generation? for His life is taken from the earth. For the transgressions of my people was He brought down to death. And I will give the wicked for His sepulchre, and the rich for His death, 7 because He did no inicjuity, neither was guile found in His mouth. And the Lord is pleased to purify Him by stripes.^ If ye make ^ an offering for sin, your soul shall see a long- lived seed. And the Lord is pleased to relieve Him of the affliction of His soul, to show Him light, and to form Him with understanding,'" to justify the Just One who ministereth well to many ; and He Himself shall carry their sins. On this account He shall inherit many, and shall divide the spoil of the strong ; because His soul was delivered to death, and He was reckoned among the transgressors, and He bare the sins of many, and for their sins was He de- livered." " And again He saith, " I am a worm, and no man ; a i-eproach of men, and despised of the people. All that see Me have derided Me ; they have spoken with their lips ; they have wagged their head, [saying] He hoped in God, let Him deliver Him, let Him save Him, since He delighteth in Him." '^ Ye see, be- loved, what is the example which has been given us ; for if the Lord thus humbled Himself, what shall we do who have through Him come under the yoke of His grace ?