Isaiah 53:2

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For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he has no stately form nor splendor; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Plant. Hebrew also, "suckling child. "(Septuagint) Ground. The blessed Virgin . (Calmet) Was. Septuagint, "he had no appearance nor beauty. But his appearance was abject and deficient above all men; a " That we. Literally, "and we have desired him. "Notwithstanding his abject condition, He was the desired of all nations, and by his wounds we are healed. (Haydock) Some assert that the person of Christ was not beautiful, while others think that his wounds prevented it from being discerned. Salmeron would supply a negation from the first number: "We have not desired him."

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