Lecture 20

^4:20^ Res. The breath of our mouth, Christ the Lord, is taken for our sins: to whom we said: under thy shadow we shall live among the gentiles.

86. Fourth, he excludes the protection of kings: the breath of our mouth, by which we breathed in the midst of our anguish; Christ the Lord, Josiah; is taken, he was killed by the Egyptians (2 Kgs 23:29); for our sins, because he himself was just. Or it can be expounded of Zedekiah, according to what follows in this history. Or better, of Christ. He was wounded for our iniquities (Isa 53:5). Under thy shadow, protection. I sat down under his shadow, whom I desired (Song 2:3).