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 times, foretold the transactions of the life, the sorrows of his soul,  agonies of his death, and the glorious  which were to ensue. In the early ages the world, the faith of God's people  supported by that mysterious  that the "Seed of the woman should  the serpent's head." The Patriarchs  assured that in the promised Seed all  of the world should be blessed. Job that his Redeemer lived. Jacob, in a ecstacy before his death, delivered that  oracle, that the sceptre should not apart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh, the Prince of Peace should make his appearance: to whom  gathering of the people should be. To  beloved Daniel, the time was revealed  expressly, when Messiah should be cut  to finish transgression, to make an end of sin, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring  everlasting righteousness, and to seal uр  vision and prophecy.

The circumstances, attending the crucifixion of Jesus, are foretold by the Psalmist as if he had actually seen them. The agonies he should feel are described; the cry he should utter on the cross is expressed; the casting of lots for his garments, the piercing of his hands and his feet, and the vinegar and the gall given him to drink, are distinctly mentioned. (Psalm xxii.)