He was brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb.' "David expatiates on the dreadful scene: 'He was a worm and no man, a very scorn of men and the outcast of the people.' "Details are multiplied.

The wounds in His hands are spoken of by Zechariah; David enumerates the circumstances of the Passion, word for word: the pierced hands, the division of His raiment, casting lots for the robe.

The hooting of the Jews, bidding Him to save Himself if He be the Son of God, is mentioned in chapter ii.

of the Book of Wisdom, and again by David; the gall and the vinegar offered Him on the Cross and the very words of Jesus giving up the ghost are to be found in the Psalms.
"Nor is this the last of the prophecies to be found in the Old Testament.
"Its prophetic mission is carried out to the end.

The establishment of the Church in the place of the Synagogue is foretold by Ezekiel, Isaiah, Joel, and Micah; and the Mass, the Eucharistic Sacrament, is plainly adumbrated by Malachi, who declared that for the offerings of the Old Law offered only in the Temple at Jerusalem shall be substituted 'a pure offering to be offered in every place and by all nations'-- by priests chosen from among all people, Isaiah adds, and David says after the order of Melchizedec.
"Pascal very truly remarks that 'the fulfilment of the prophecies is a perpetual miracle, and that no other proof is needed to show the divine origin of the Christian Religion.'" Durtal had gone closer to the statues, standing by Saint Anne, and was looking at one on the left wearing a pointed cap, a sort of papal tiara with a crown round the edge, robed in an alb girt round the middle with knotted cord, and a large cope with a fringe; the features were grave, almost anxious, and the eye fixed with an absorbed gaze into the distance.