...the unexpected and startling fact, that " the foxes had holes, and the birds of the air had nests, but the Son of man had not where to lay his head." And this interesting but unhappy youth appeared all excellent and lovely, until Jesus applied to him...

...to eat." (Mark vi. 31.) And as to place, " The foxes have holes, and the bkds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man (had) not where to lay his head." (Matt, viii. 20.) Yet, by rising early, and by late retiring to rest (compare Mark i. 35, •with Luke...

...Messiah, he was afflicted with poverty. " The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests ; but the Son of Man had not where to lay his head." View him in his reputation : he was charged with being a wine-bibber, a blasphemer, and a demoniac....

...a rich man, although the world was his own. " Foxes had holes, and the birds of the air had nests, but the Son of man had not where to lay his head." This, it is true, was voluntary privation, and yet it seemed a necessary part of his assumption of...

...fading glory and grandeur of the world. " The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man had not where to lay his head." He who commanded the elements, who suspended or reversed at pleasure the established constitution of...

...whose pleasure they are and were created 1" "The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the son of man had not where to lay his head.'' Is there an indignity, a sorrow, an injury, which man has suffered or heard of, which was not heaped...

...the memory of these most touching words : ' Foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, us, to testify tho gospel of the grace of God.' He EIGHTEENTH DAY. — EVENING. ' For we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him,'...

...ours might be a lot of unmingled blessedness ; foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man had not where to lay his head. Disbelieved on by his brethren, who also mocked and aspersed him ; slighted if not opposed by other...

...Hence he submitted to be without a home ; the foxes had holes, and the. birds of the air had nests, but the Son of man had not where to lay his head, Matt. viii. 20. He was willing to perform long and painful journeys, that all who would, might come...

...deep poverty to which He submitted ; for " the foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man had not where to lay His head" — all this has invested, in a believer's estimation, an humble rank of life with such respect, and...