are familiar with these prophecies; but they are facts whose existence must be mentioned.
And furthermore it is my object to show that as the coming of the long-promised Messiah drew nearer the description of him began to vary. In one set of passages it is shown that he will be a conqueror and a deliverer, and in another that he will be poor and despised. Let us glance at some of them in order to understand why the Jews expected possibly two Messiahs in order to be able to combine the fulfilment of all the prophecies.
Concerning the Messiah as a conqueror and deliverer, in the eleventh chapter of Isaiah we read:
"And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. . . And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth."
Many of the glorious conditions foretold of the reign of the Messiah are found in this chap-
