13. That Christ was to come in low estate in His first advent.

In Isaiah: “Lord, who hath believed our report, and to whom is the Arm of the Lord revealed? We have declared in His presence as children, as a root in a thirsty ground. There is no form nor glory in Him; and we saw Him, and He had no form nor beauty; but His form was without honour, and lacking beyond other men. He was a man set in a plague, and knowing how to bear weakness; because His face was turned away, He was dishonoured, and was not accounted of. He bears our sins, and grieves for us; and we thought that He was in grief, and in wounding, and in affliction; but He was wounded for our transgressions, and He was weakened202    “Infirmatus;” Oxford transl. “bruised.” for our sins. The discipline of our peace was upon Him, and with His bruise we are healed. We all like sheep have gone astray; man has gone out of his way. And God has delivered Him for our sins; and He, because He was afflicted, opened not His mouth.”203    Isa. liii. 1–7. [See p. 516, supra.] Also in the same: “I am not rebellious, nor do I contradict.  I gave my back to the stripes, and my cheeks to the palms of the hands. Moreover, I did not turn away my face from the foulness of spitting, and God was my helper.”204    Isa. l. 5–7. Also in the same: “He shall not cry, nor will any one hear His voice in the streets. He shall not break a bruised reed, and a smoking flax He shall not extinguish; but He shall bring forth judgment in truth. He shall shine forth, and shall not be shaken, until He set judgment in the earth, and in His name shall the nations trust.”205    Isa. xlii. 2–4. Also in the twenty-first Psalm: “But I am a worm, and no man; the accursed of man, and the casting away of the people. All they who saw me despised me, and spoke within their lips, and moved their head. He hoped in the Lord, let Him deliver him; let Him save him, since he will have Him.”206    Ps. xxii. 6–8. Also in that place: “My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue is glued to my jaws.”207    Ps. xxii. 15. Also in Zechariah:  “And the Lord showed me Jesus, that great priest, standing before the face of the Angel of the Lord, and the devil was standing at his right hand to oppose him. And Jesus was clothed in filthy garments, and he stood before the face of the Angel Himself; and He answered and said to them who were standing before His face, saying, Take away his filthy garments from him. And he said to him, Behold, I have taken away thine iniquities. And put upon him a priestly garment,208    “Poderem,” “a long priestly robe reaching to the heels” (Migne’s Lexicon). The Oxford translation gives the meaning “an alb,” which also is given in Migne. and set a fair mitre209    Cidarim, the head-dress for the Jewish high priest. upon his head.”210    Zech. iii. 1, 3, 5. Also Paul to the Philippians: “Who, being established in the form of God, thought it not robbery that He was equal with God, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men; and being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient even unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore also God exalted Him, and gave Him a name which is above every name, that in the name211    “In nomine;” Oxford translator, “at the name,” following the Eng. ver. But see the Greek, ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι. of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, of things in earth, and of infernal things, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord in the glory of God the Father.”212    Phil. ii. 6–11.

CAP. XIII.---QUOD HUMILIS IN PRIMO ADVENTU SUO VENIRET.

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Apud Esaiam: Domine, quis credidit auditui nostro, et brachium Domini cui revelatum est? Annuntiavimus coram ipso sicut pueri, sicut radix in terra sitienti. Non est figura ejus neque claritas; et vidimus illum, et non habuit figuram neque speciem, sed figura ejus sine honore et deficiens praeter caeteros homines. Homo in plaga positus et sciens ferre imbecillitatem ; quia aversa est facies ejus, inhonoratus est, et non est computatus (Isa. LIII, 1-7). Hic peccata nostra portat , et pro nobis dolet , et nos putavimus illum esse in dolore et in plaga et in vexatione; ipse autem vulneratus est propter facinora nostra, et infirmatus est propter peccata nostra. Doctrina pacis nostrae super 0707B illum, et livore ejus sanati sumus. Omnes sicut oves erravimus, homo a via sua erravit. Et Deus tradidit illum pro peccatis nostris, et ipse propterea quod vexatus est, non aperuit os suum (Isa. LIII, 1-7). Item apud eumdem: Non sum contumax, neque contradico; dorsum meum posui ad flagella, et maxillas meas ad palmas, faciem autem meam non averti a faeditate sputorum, et fuit Deus auxiliator meus (Isa. L, 5, 7). Item apud eumdem: Non clamabit neque audiet quis in plateis vocem ejus. Arundinem quassatam non confringet, et linum fumigans non exstinguet, sed in veritate proferet judicium. Fulgebit et non quassabitur quoadusque ponat in terra judicium, et in nomine ejus Gentes credent (Isa. XLII, 2, 4). Item in Psalmo XXI: Ego autem sum vermis, et non homo, maledictum hominis et 0707C abjectio populi. Omnes qui me videbant despiciebant me , et locuti sunt in labiis , et moverunt caput. Speravit in Domino, eripiat eum; salvum faciat eum, quoniam vult eum (Ps. XXI, 7-9). Item illic: Aruit velut testa virtus mea, et lingua mea agglutinata est faucibus meis. Item apud Zachariam: Et ostendit mihi Dominus Jesum sacerdotem illum magnum stantem ante faciem Angeli Domini, et diabolus stabat ad dexteram ejus adversari ei. Et Jesus erat indutus vestimenta sordida, et stabant ante faciem ipsius Angeli, et respondit et ait ad eos qui stabant ante faciem ejus dicens: Auferte vestimenta sordida ab eo. Et dixit ad eum: Ecce abstuli iniquitates tuas. Et induite eum poderem , 0708A et imponite cidarim mundam super caput ejus (Zach. III, 1, 3, 5). Item Paulus ad Philippenses: Qui, in figura Dei constitutus, non rapinam arbitratus est esse se aequalem Deo, sed semetipsum exinanivit , formam servi accipiens, in similitudinem hominum factus, et habitu inventus ut homo . Humiliavit se, factus obediens usque ad mortem, mortem autem crucis. Propter quod et Deus exaltavit illum, et donavit illi nomen quod est super omne nomen, ut in nomine Jesu omne genu flectatur coelestium, terrestrium et infernorum, et omnis lingua confiteatur quia Dominus Jesus Christus in gloria est Dei Patris (Philip. II, 6-11).