32The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
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He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. …
For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: …
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 26-40)We have here the story of the conversion of an Ethiopian eunuch to the faith of Christ, by whom, we have reason to think, the knowledge of Christ was sent into that country where he lived, and that scripture fulfilled, Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands (one of the first of the nations) unto God , Ps. 68:31. I. Philip the evangelist is directed into the road where he would meet with this Et…
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