...when God declared war with the world, was sheathed in Christ when peace was proclaimed. " Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that...of hosts : smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered [from the stroke] : and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones," Zech. xiii. 7- Thus...

...St. Mark, xiv. 27- It occurs in the seventh verse of the xiiith chapter, and is as follows : Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that...of Hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones. In this verse, says Primate Newcome,...

...wickedness of the instruments, and the innocence of the sufferer. For thus it was written, " Awake, O sword, against my Shepherd, and against the man, that...fellow, saith the Lord of Hosts : Smite the Shepherd," &c. Now by laying such amazing sufferings on his dearly beloved Son — by its fileasing the Lord thus...

...reversed or changed. The awful sentence is gone forth, "Without blood there is no remission!" " Awake, O sword! against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of Hosts." Love to man, joined with a zeal for the honour and support of the Father's government,- — these motives,...

...reversed or changed. The awful sentence is gone forth, "Without blood there is no remission!" " Awake, O sword-! -against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of Hosts." Love to man, joined, whh a zeal for the honour and support of the Father's government, — these motives,...

...predicts the death of the Messiah, and his equality with the Father, in the following language. Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts. This exalted personage was to be ushered in by a herald, who was to cry in the wilderness, Prefiareye...

...reversed or changed. The awful sentence is gone forth, " Without blood there is no remission !" " Awake, O sword! against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of Hosts." Love to man, joined with a zeal for the honour and support of the Father's government, — these motives,...

...before the world was made; and that Christ is equal to the Father the scriptures witaess : " Awake, O sword, against my Shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts." And again, " Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God." And again,...

...; but with his own mouth, he issues out the dread commission, Awake, O sword, against my Shefiherd, against the Man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of Hosts : smite the Shepherd, smite and sfiare not. Zech. xiii. T. JVbw it even filease d the Father to bruise him, and fiut him...

...are told what Christ would have to endure, when once he should become incarnate; " Awake, O my sword, against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts; smite the shepherd." It is true that Christ was to make satisfaction for sin by his sufferings and death; and in t/iat vieio...