For they persecute him whom you have smitten – This means that instead of pitying one who is afflicted by God, or showing compassio…

They talk ... —Better, and respecting the pain of your pierced ones, they talk. (For the construction of this verb ta…

For they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten. He brings forward the crime with which they were chargeable, to make it clear that th…

For they persecute [him] whom you have smitten
Meaning the Messiah, who was not only smitten and scourged by men, bu…

These are prophecies of the destruction of Christ's persecutors. Verses 22 and 23 are applied to the judgments of God upon the unbelieving Jews, in…