I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked out the beard: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Spit. The greatest indignity, Job xxx. 10., and Deuteronomy xxv. 9. Yet this was the treatment of our Saviour, Luke xviii. 31., and Matthew xxvi. 67. (Calmet)
"The great Grotius, (I wish he were great in explaining the prophets) "applies this to Jeremias. (Houbigant)