He should feed His flock like _a shepherd_ (Isa. xl. 11); “I will set one
_shepherd_ over them, even My servant David” (Ezek. xxxiv. 23). “A king
shall reign and prosper, and this is the name whereby He shall be called,
the _Lord our Righteousness_” (Jer. xxiii. 5, 6).
He was “to be a priest for ever, after the order of Melchesidec” (Ps. ex.
4). “He shall be a priest upon His throne” (Zech. vi. 13).
He should be for a “sanctuary” (Isa. viii. 14); a “rock and place of
refuge” (Ps. xci. 1).
He should “enter Jerusalem riding on an ass’s colt” (Zech. ix. 9).
He should “be higher than the kings of the earth.” His throne should
“endure as the sun” (Ps. lxxxix. 27, 36).
He should “open His mouth in a parable, and utter dark sayings of old”
(Ps. lxxviii. 2; Isa. vi. 9, 10, compared with Matt. xiii. 14).
The rulers should “take counsel together against Him” (Ps. ii. 2).
His “own familiar friend, who did eat of His bread,” should “lift up his
heel against Him” (Ps. xli. 9).
“They weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the
potter in the House of the Lord” (Zech. xi. 12, 13). “They gave me gall
for my meat, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink” (Ps. lxix.
21).
“Not a bone of Him should be broken” (Ex. xii. 46; Ps. xxxiv. 20). “He
should give His back to the smitters, and His cheeks to them that plucked
off the hair.” “He hid not His face from shame and spitting” (Isa. l.
6).
The assembly of the wicked should enclose Him—“they pierced my hands and
my feet” (Ps. xxii. 16). “They part my garments among them, and cast
lots upon my vesture” (Ps. xxii. 18). “All they that see me laugh me to
scorn; they shoot out the lip; they shake the head, saying, He trusted on
the Lord that He would deliver Him; let Him deliver Him, seeing He
delighted in Him” (Ps. xxii. 7, 8).
He should “make His grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His
death, because He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His
mouth” (Isa. liii. 9).
He should “make intercession for the transgressors” (Isa. liii. 12).
“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
He should rise from the dead (Ps. xvi. 10), ascend into heaven, and
receive gifts for men, even “for the rebellious also, that the Lord God
might dwell among them” (Ps. lxviii. 18).
He should “pour out His Spirit on all flesh, so that their sons and
daughters should prophesy,” &c. (Joel ii. 28).
To “one like unto the Son of Man” was to be given “dominion and glory and
a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages, should serve Him;
His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away, and
His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed” (Dan. vii. 13, 14).
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