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TBESSALONICA 227 ^^He made His grave with tlie wicked, and with the rich in His death; because He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him ; He hath put Him to grief. ' ' " But He who was to suffer death at the hands of evil men, was to rise again as a conqueror over sin and the grave. Under the inspiration of the Almighty, the sweet singer of Israel had testified of the glories of the resurrection morn. ^'My flesh also,'^ he joyously proclaimed, shall rest in hope. For Thou wilt not leave My soul in hell [the grave] ; neither wilt Thou suffer Thine Holy One to see corruption. ' ^ " Paul showed how closely God had linked the sacrificial service with the prophecies relating to the One who was to be "brought as a lamb to the slaughter.'' The Messiah was to give His life as "an offering for sin." Looking down through the centuries to the scenes of the Saviour's atonement, the prophet Isaiah had testified that the Lamb of God "poured out His soul unto death: and He was numbered with the transgressors; and He bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. ' ' The Saviour of prophecy was to come, not as a temporal king, to deliver the Jewish nation from earthly oppressors, but as a man among men, to live a life of poverty and humility, and at last to be despised, rejected, and slain. The Saviour foretold in the Old Testament Scriptures was to offer Himself as a sacrifice in behalf of the fallen race, thus fulfilling every requirement of the broken law. In Him ^« Isa. 53 : 9, 10. " Ps. 16 : 9, 10. ^« Isa. 53 : 7, 10, 12.