and comfort is laid, and whose very name of the Comforter means One who by his being with a man strengthens him. II. The training and preparation of the Messiah for His mission. The Messiah is here represented as having the tongue of ‘them that are taught,’ and as having it, because morning by morning He has been wakened to hear God’s lessons. He is thus God’s scholar—a thought of which an unreflecting orthodoxy has been shy, but which it is necessary to admit unhesitatingly and ungrudgingly, if