Liber ni.]--E.
* Before going into the consideration of the following prophecies, the author would warn the reader to bear in mind, that whether these prophecies ever will be fulfilled, is a question of no import in the world to the question under consideration, which is--whether they have been fulfilled eighteen hundred years ago, in the person of Jesus Christ, who is asserted by Christians to be the person foretold in these prophecies, and to have fulfilled their predictions.

This question can be easily decided, and only, we think, by appealing to past history, and to the scenes passing around us, and comparing them with these predictions .-- E.
* The word in the original being Vayikra, in the Kal or Active form of the verb, and not Vayikare the Niphal or Passive form .-- D.
# reprove or argue .-- D.
* Or, in righteousness .-- D.
# Mr.English very properly takes notice of the disjunctive accent (Pasek) occurring here in the text .-- D.
# For a more correct enumeration of the thirteen cabalistic rules of exposition, the English reader is referred to vol.1, page 209, of the "Conciliator" of B.Menasseh ben Israel, translated by E, H.Lindo, Esqr .-- D.
# Mr.E.was, doubtless, aware that this is an exposition given by Jewish Commentators .-- D.
# There exists an English translation of this work by Abraham de Sola.
-- D.
* The person here spoken of by Isaiah is said to make his grave with the wicked, and be with the rich in his death.

Whereas Jesus did exactly the contrary.

He was with the wicked (i.e., the two thieves) in his death, and with the rich (i.e., Joseph of Arimathea) in his grave, or tomb.

In the original, the words may be translated that "he shall avenge, or recompence upon the wicked his grave, and his death upon the rich." Thus does the Targum and the Arabic version interpret the place, and Ezekiel ix.