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Acts 8:33

in his humiliation, &c. The Hebrew text signifies "Through oppression and through judgement (i.e. punishment) he was taken away."

who shall declare his generation?] i.e. who shall describe his contemporaries, men who under a form of judicial punishment oppressed the sufferer, and put him to death?

for his life is taken from the earth The Hebrew has "for he was cut off out of the land of the living." It will be seen from a comparison of the Hebrew and the LXX. that the latter is in some parts rather a paraphrase than a translation.

Some of the Jews interpreted this passage of the Messiah and some of the congregation of Israel. In the Targum of Jonathan these two interpretations run side by side.

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