Still, I could not conceal from myself, that no exactness in this prophecy, however singular, could avail to make out that Jesus was the Messiah of Hezekiah's prophets.

There must be _some_ explanation; and if I did not see it, that must probably arise from prejudice and habit .-- In order therefore to gain freshness, I resolved to peruse the entire prophecy of the pseudo-Isaiah in Lowth's version, from ch.xl.

onward, at a single sitting.
This prophet writes from Babylon, and has his vision full of the approaching restoration of his people by Cyrus, whom he addresses by name.

In ch.xliii.he introduces to us an eminent and "chosen servant of God," whom he invests with all the evangelical virtues, and declares that he is to be a light to the Gentiles.

In ch.xliv.