...travail of His son. !" — It was the hour, when He, whose " sword is bathed in heaven," cried, "AWAKE* O SWORD, AGAINST MY SHEPHERD, AND AGAINST THE MAN THAT IS MY FELLOW."— Enter into the meaning of those words, coming, as they do, from the mouth of the Almighty ! Think of...

...To the same speaketh another Prophet, Zachariah's Prophecy, xiii. 7, "awake, oh 1 sword against iriy shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith...of Hosts ; smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered, and I will turn mine hands upon the little ones:" this, with St. Matthew's Gospel compared,...

...thine hands ? then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that...fellow, saith the Lord of hosts : smite the shepherd, &c. — Zech. xiii. 6, 7. Matt. xxvi. 31. 47 — 19. From that time forth began Jesus to shew, &c....

...hands • then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of ray friends. Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that...fellow, saith the Lord of hosts : smite the shepherd, &c. — Zech. xiii. 6, 7. Matt. xxvi. 31. 47—49. From that time forth began Jesus to shew, &c. how...

...the Father would not relent ; but with his own mouth he issues out the dread commission, " Awake, O sword, against my Shepherd, and against the man that...fellow, saith the LORD of hosts : smite the Shepherd." Zech. xiii. 7. Now it even pleased the Father to bruise him, and put him to grief. Isa. liii. 10. And...

...passages, (Zech. xii. 10.) " They shall look upon me whom they have " pierced," and (Zech. xiii. 7.) " Awake, " О sword, against my Shepherd, and " against...man that is my fellow, saith " the Lord of hosts," also refer to the Messiah : and so do the passages in Ps. xxii. 7. 17. " All they that see me, laugh...

...day, which was Sunday, Mr. De Courcy preached at Tottenham Court Chapel, from Zech. xiii. 7. "Awake, O sword, against my Shepherd ; and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of Hosts:" &c. His youthful appearance and pleasing address fixed the attention of the numerous audience, and...

...everlasting." 'Ps. xxiii. 1, 2. Ixxx. 1. 'Is. xl. 11. ' Mic. v. — " Awake, O sword, against my Shepherd, " against the Man that is my fellow, saith the " Lord of hosts ; smite the Shepherd." l — When, I say, we consider these predictions in connexion, with what the New Testament says, of...

...He spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all — Awake, O sword, against mv shepherd, against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts." What was offered under the law was to be a person's own ; for the Lord hateth robbery for a burnt-offering....

...satis— 82 fied with less. The prophet Zechariah, speaking of this sacrifice, had said : " Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that...the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered." The application, which our Lord makes of the latter clause in this passage, convinces us that the former...