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 prophets, whence He says: ‘I come to fulfil all things.' In the things predicted by the law grand features appear: — the birth of Christ of a virgin, His sufferings, His cross, His resurrection; and again the conversion of the world and of the Gentiles, with the condemnation and just chastisement of the Jews. These are the great features; but these are not all. There is the iota^ and the smallest points of the prophecies which have also to be fulfilled. His garments must be divided: they must cast lots for His tunic without seam. See the precision involved in so subtle and accurate a distinction! Here is the iota — the minute detail. Then, He is to be sold, which may be called a great circumstance; but the price given for Him is to be thirty pieces of silver, and the field is to be bought of a potter. Here again is the iota y which must no more escape fulfilment than the rest. Thus, also, He must thirst — and His thirst must be quenched with vinegar and gall. He must suffer — that is the great prophecy; but it shall be outside the gates of the city — this is the small one. He is to be sacrificed like the Paschal Lamb; but also His bones, like those of the Lamb, are not to be broken on the Cross — once more the iota — and so with all the rest. Speak-