That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,
Ver. 14. That it might be fulfilled, &c.] The two Testaments may be fitly resembled to the double doors of the temple, one whereof infolded another: the Old is the New infolded; the New is the Old explicated. (Jerome in nom. Hebraicis.) For there are over two hundred and sixty places in the Old Testameat cited in the New: so that almost in every needful point the harmony is expressed.
By the prophet Esaias] That evangelical prophet, that speaketh of Christ's nativity, preaching, persecution, apprehension, death, resurrection, ascension, and second coming to judgment, so lively as no evangelist goes beyond him. (Bulling in Isa., praef.)