But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 19. Meek: pet lamb. The Arabs still keep one in their houses. 2 Kennicott. 12:3. Bochart ii. 46. Calmet.—Knew. I acted as if I had been ignorant. Menochius.—Yet Christ foretold his sufferings. Matthew 20:18. and so forth Worthington.—Bread. Christ, the bread of life, was nailed to the disgraceful wood. Saint Jerome Saint Gregory Mor. iii. 12.—They threaten to beat him, (De Dieu) or to mix a poisonous wood with his food. Calmet. Menochius.—Some Jews had corrupted this text in S. Justin’s time. D.