Yet such an isolated act is surely a carnal and beggarly fulfilment.

To ride on an ass is no mark of humility in those who must ordinarily go on foot.

The prophet clearly means that the righteous king is not to ride on a warhorse and trust in cavalry, as Solomon and the Egyptians, (see Ps.xx.7.Is.xxxi.

1-3, xxx.

16,) but is to imitate the lowliness of David and the old judges, who rode on young asses; and is to be a lover of peace.
Chapters 50 and 53 of the pseudo-Isaiah remained; which contain many phrases so aptly descriptive of the sufferings of Christ, and so closely knit up with our earliest devotional associations, that they were the very last link of my chain that snapt.