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A Prophecy concerning the Coming of Christ 106. A PROPHECY CONCERNING THE COMING OF CHRIST And now hearken how each one of them hath prophesied concerning Him, [for the narrative] is pleasant to hear. Isaiah the Prophet prophesied concerning His " is unto us. A Child coming and said, A Son is born His shoulder. is written us. Dominion unto upon given He is God, strong in rule, King, great Counsellor is His the name." 1 Now the meaning of this is manifest Son of God is born, Whose sovereignty was written down before the world was, and He is wiser than anyone And again else [this is what] he saith unto thee. " Behold My servant Whom Isaiah prophesied and said, I have chosen, on Whom is the delight of My soul, and : : the nations shall put their confidence in Him." 2 And these words give us to understand that Christ is the Spirit of God, the Word of the Father Who put on our flesh and was born for us and the peoples of Rome and Ethiopia and all other nations have believed in Him. And he spake unto the people of Israel, and again he " prophesied, saying, Many shall follow after Thee with : their loins girded up, and their backs bound with fetters, and they shall pray to Thee and worship Thee, for thou art God, and we have not recognized Thee." 3 Now this he spake concerning the martyrs, and those who became monks in the desert and solitary monks, whose hearts were fettered with His commandment, and who prayed to Him, meaning that reward was meet for both the martyrs and the solitary monks. " And we did not " Israel made itself blind, and crucirecognize Thee fied Him, and refused to walk in His righteousness. And again Isaiah prophesied and said, " God shall come, and the heathen shall put their trust in Him and shall know Him ;" 4 this meaneth that Christ shall come, and the Jews shall reject Him, but the heathen shall believe : 1 Isaiah ix, 6. 3 * Isaiah xlii, I. * Compare Jeremiah xxx, 6-9. Isaiah Ix, 2, 3. 201