The 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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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
As a sheep, or a lamb The eunuch, by divine Providence, was now reading the 53d chap. of Isaias, which is of Christ, and his sufferings.
In humility his judgment was taken away. The sense seems to be, that Christ having humbled himself, so as to undergo an unjust judgment, or condemnation to die on the cross, hath been again raised from the dead, and delivered from that judgment by his glorious resurrection, and ascension. (Witham)
