...point out in his composition Him, the awful and mysterious person of whom the prophet wrote that he was to " grow up as a root out of a dry ground," without "form or comeliness," who really moved so undistinguished outwardly that the hetrayer's kiss was needed to mark...

...least shadowed the great thought that the lowly Manhood, sprung from the humbled royal stock, shall grow up as a root out of a dry ground, without form or comeliness, and be lifted to find its rest and dwelling-place in the very central blaze of the Divine...

...Which of us (they ask) believed that which we heard, or recognised the Lord's hand, when we saw him grow up as a root out of a dry ground, without form or comeliness, despised and rejected of men? Surely he hath borne our griefs, and been wounded for our...