Jerusalem and its temples appeared to them as a city placed on the summit of a mountain, toward which all people should turn, as an oracle whence the universal law should proceed, as the centre of an ideal kingdom, in which the human race, set at rest by Israel, should find again the joys of Eden.[3] [Footnote 1: I remind the reader that this word means here simply the people who speak or have spoken one of the languages called Semitic.
Such a designation is entirely defective; but it is one of those words, like "Gothic architecture," "Arabian numerals," which we must preserve to be understood, even after we have demonstrated the error that they imply.] [Footnote 2: I Sam.x.

25.] [Footnote 3: Isa.ii.

1-4, and especially chaps.xl., and following, lx., and following; Micah iv.

1, and following.

It must be recollected that the second part of the book of Isaiah, beginning at chap.xl., is not by Isaiah.] Mystical utterances already made themselves heard, tending to exalt the martyrdom and celebrate the power of the "Man of Sorrows." Respecting one of those sublime sufferers, who, like Jeremiah, stained the streets of Jerusalem with their blood, one of the inspired wrote a song upon the sufferings and triumph of the "servant of God," in which all the prophetic force of the genius of Israel seemed concentrated.[1] "For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness.