 | Charles Jerome Callan - Homiletical illustrations - 1916 - 392 pages
...burden which was upon Him, and which He had come upon earth to sustain.—Cardinal Newman. We have seen Him despised and the most abject of men, a Man of...Sorrows and acquainted with infirmity; and His look was as it were hidden.—Is. LIII, 3. The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air nests; but the... | |
 | Bp. Olympe Philippe Gerbet - 1916 - 368 pages
...now about to be verified." Voice of Isaias " And He shall grow up as a tender plant before Him, and as a root out of a thirsty ground. There is no beauty in Him, or comeliness, and we have seen Him, and there was no sightliness, that we should be desirous of Him.... | |
 | Columba Marmion - Christian life - 1928 - 434 pages
...Contemplate that picture of the sufferings of Christ traced long before, by the prophet Isaias : " There is no beauty in Him, nor comeliness, and we...sorrows and acquainted with infirmity ; and His look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed Him not. Surely He hath borne our infirmities... | |
 | Herman Joseph Heuser - 1962 - 516 pages
...not know and well could the psalmist .-.ay of Him : "There is no beauty in him, nor comeliness .... despised and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with infirmity" (Is., 53:2f). All of this suffering came to Christ only because He willed it. We are familiar with... | |
 | James Walsh, P. G. Walsh - Reference - 1985 - 276 pages
...before our very eyes: There was no beauty, no comeliness in him, that we should look on him. He was despised and the most abject of men, A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed him... | |
 | Clare Boothe Luce - Religion - 1993 - 338 pages
...quotations referring to the "child", one of her favorite Bible passages was the famous one from Isaiah: "There is no beauty in him nor comeliness: and we have seen him, and there was no sightliness . . . despised and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with infirmity: and his... | |
 | Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer (Santo) - Devotional literature - 2004 - 134 pages
...those hearts that as yet do not love him. SIXTH STATION THE FACE OF JESUS IS WIPED BY VERONICA here is no beauty in him, nor comeliness: and we have seen...him, and there was no sightliness, that we should be attracted to him. Despised and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with infirmity;... | |
 | J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur - History - 1995 - 594 pages
...Encounters.” Both these references reflect a particular Old Testament prophecy of the Messiah as “Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity” (Isa. 53: 3)•19 In “The Man of Sorrow,” there are two decidedly New Testament allusions: in one,... | |
 | Vernon Johnson - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 234 pages
...description of the humiliation of the Holy Face that he opens it: No beauty in him, nor comeliness... despised and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with inßrmity. 2 " But that humiliation is not merely negative; it results in the conversion... | |
 | Edward Leen - Religion - 2001 - 340 pages
...The sensuous and the delicate, coming on the spectacle, turned from it in loathing but not in pity. "There is no beauty in Him nor comeliness: and we...sorrows and acquainted with infirmity: and His look was, as it were, hidden and despised. Wherefore, we esteemed Him not." 42 The indifferent merely glanced... | |
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