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Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.
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Verse 32–33. As a sheep, or a lamb, and so forth The eunuch, by divine Providence, was now reading the 53d chap. of Isaias, which is of Christ, and his sufferings.—In humility his judgment was taken away. The sense seems to be, that Christ having humbled himself, so as to undergo an unjust judgment, or condemnation to die on the cross, hath been again raised from the dead, and delivered from that judgment by his glorious resurrection, and ascension. Witham.
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