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 Sometimes the Prophets represent Jesus sufferer, and sometimes as a conqueror. they speak of his humiliation, then of exaltation. They point him out as the that was to come out of Jacob, and as  Branch that was to spring out of the  of Jesse. They describe him as the of the covenant; and as the Desire  all nations, who should suddenly come to his temple. They hold him forth as a who should reign in righteousness,  his sway from shore to shore;  kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,  of whose dominion there shall be no end. "To us," they cry, in a divine transport, "to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." Yet, mysterious as it is, this is he of whom they speak, in other places, as calling himself a worm and no man, a reproach of men, and despised by the people; as being hated without a cause; as being despised and of men; led like a lamb to the slaughter; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and cut off out of the land of the living. The cross of Christ explains, elucidates, and confirms all these predictions.

2. The cross of Christ is the sum of the