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Isaiah 50:6

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I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.

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Verse 6. Spit. The greatest indignity. Job 30:10. Deuteronomy 25:9. Yet this was the treatment of our Saviour. Lu. 18:31. Matthew 26:67. Calmet.—“The great Grotius, (I wish he were great in explaining the prophets)” applies this to Jeremias. Houbigant.

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