Then was fulfilled that passage of Jeremy the prophet,

for it is he that is meant in that passage, "behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee."

have you not read, said he, this passage of scripture, "the stone which the builders rejected, is become the principal stone of the angle.

so that this passage of scripture was fulfill'd, "and he was numbred with the transgressors."

they delivered to him the book of the prophet Esaias, and upon opening the book, that passage occurr'd, where it is written,

he undertook to show them, how the passage they had heard, was actually then accomplished.

besides this, there is an unalterable chasm between us and you, so that the passage from one place to the other is impracticable to those who should attempt it.

then beginning at Moses he explain'd all the passages there, and in all the prophets, which related to himself.

which put his disciples in mind of that passage, "my zeal for thine house does prey upon me."

this passage his disciples did not understand at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, they remembred how they had mounted him, and perceiv'd that those words related to him.

so that the passage of Esaias the prophet was fulfilled, where he says, "Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?

I say not this of you all; for I know whom I have chosen: and that passage of the scripture must be fulfilled, "He that eateth bread with me, hath lift up his heel against me."

so that the passage is fulfilled that is written in their law, "they hated me without a cause."

the passage of the scripture which he read, was this, "he was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and like a lamb before his shearer, was dumb, so opened he not his mouth:

then Philip enter'd upon the subject, and show'd how the whole passage was applicable to Jesus.

but when this corruptible shall be invested with incorruptibility, and this mortal with immortality, then shall be fulfilled that passage of scripture, " death is swallowed up for ever."

for I do not design to see you in my passage thither, yet I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permit.

he pointed out another time in the words, which were spoken by David, a long time after their going into Canaan, in the passage just now quoted, "today since ye hear his voice, harden not your hearts."

or do you imagine that passage of scripture to be insignificant, "does the spirit that dwells in you, incite you to vice?"

as it were in all his epistles, where he takes notice of these things: in which there are some passages that are difficult to understand, which the illiterate, and unstable wrest, as they do the rest of the scriptures, to their own ruin.