The last of these verses serves as a clue to explain the others in reference to Christ. Recollect the taunts of the Jews, when the Lord hung on the cross, when they said, He trusted in God that he would deliver him; let him deliver him now, if he will have him; Matthew 27:43. And the burden of sorrow Jesus sustained had caused such a premature appearance of old age, that though but little more than thirty years old when he entered upon his ministry, the Jews spoke of him as near fifty, John 8:57.

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