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And that the Spirit of prophecy might signify to us that He who suffers these things has
an ineffable origin, and rules His enemies, He spake thus: “His generation who shall declare?
because His life is cut off from the earth: for their transgressions He comes to death. And I
will give the wicked for His burial, and the rich for His death; because He did no violence,
neither was any deceit in His mouth. And the Lord is pleased to cleanse Him from the stripe.
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If He be given for sin, your soul shall see His seed prolonged in days. And the Lord is pleased
to deliver His soul from grief, to show Him light, and to form Him with knowledge, to jus-
tify the righteous who richly serveth many. And He shall bear our iniquities. Therefore He
shall inherit many, and He shall divide the spoil of the strong; because His soul was delivered
to death: and He was numbered with the transgressors; and He bare the sins of many, and
He was delivered up for their transgressions.”108 Hear, too, how He was to ascend into
heaven according to prophecy. It was thus spoken: “Lift up the gates of heaven; be ye opened,
that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord, strong and
mighty.”109 And how also He should come again out of heaven with glory, hear what was
spoken in reference to this by the prophet Jeremiah.110 His words are: “Behold, as the Son
of man He cometh in the clouds of heaven, and His angels with Him.”111
108 Isa. liii. 8–12.
109 Ps. xxiv. 7.
110 This prophecy occurs not in Jeremiah, but in Dan. vii. 13.
111 Dan. vii. 13.
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Chapter LI.—The majesty of Christ.