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Chapter XXXV.—Other fulfilled
prophecies.
And how Christ after He was born was to
escape the notice of other men until He grew to man’s estate, which
also came to pass, hear what was foretold regarding this. There are the following
predictions:1834
| 1834 These
predictions have so little reference to the point Justin intends to make
out, that some editors have supposed that a passage has here been lost.
Others think the irrelevancy an insufficient ground for such a
supposition. [See below, cap. xl.] | —“Unto us a
child is born, and unto us a young man is given, and the government shall
be upon His shoulders;”1835
which is
significant of the power of the cross, for to it, when He was crucified,
He applied His shoulders, as shall be more clearly made out in the
ensuing discourse. And again the same prophet Isaiah, being inspired by
the prophetic Spirit, said, “I have spread out my hands to a
disobedient and gainsaying people, to those who walk in a way that is not
good. They now ask of me judgment, and dare to draw near to
God.”1836
And again in other words, through another prophet, He says,
“They pierced My hands and My feet, and for My vesture they cast
lots.”1837
And indeed David, the
king and prophet, who uttered these things, suffered none of them; but
Jesus Christ stretched forth His hands, being crucified by the Jews
speaking against Him, and denying that He was the Christ. And as the
prophet spoke, they tormented Him, and set Him on the judgment-seat, and
said, Judge us. And the expression, “They pierced my hands and my
feet,” was used in reference to the nails of the cross which were
fixed in His hands and feet. And after He was crucified they cast lots
upon His vesture, and they
that crucified Him parted it
among them. And that these things did happen, you can ascertain from the
Acts of Pontius Pilate.1838
| 1838
ἄκτων. These Acts
of Pontius Pilate, or regular accounts of his procedure sent by Pilate to
the Emperor Tiberius, are supposed to have been destroyed at an early
period, possibly in consequence of the unanswerable appeals which the
Christians constantly made to them. There exists a forgery in imitation
of these Acts. See Trollope. | And we
will cite the prophetic utterances of another prophet, Zephaniah,1839
| 1839 The reader will notice that
these are not the words of Zephaniah, but of Zechariah (ix. 9), to whom
also Justin himself refers them in the Dial. Tryph., c. 53. [Might
be corrected in the text, therefore, as a clerical slip of the pen.]
| to the effect that He was foretold expressly as to sit upon the
foal of an ass and to enter Jerusalem. The words are these:
“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of
Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee; lowly, and riding upon an
ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.”1840
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