Francis Patrick Kenrick

A prophecy in these terms is nowhere found. St. Chrysostom thinks that some book which contained it has been lost. St. Jerom remarks, that C'hrist is called by Isaiah a llower, in Hebrew Naiiir, of the root of Jesse. Several of the moderns explain it as an expression of contempt, Nazareth being a poor village. All the prophecies Vihich .mark the humiliations of Christ concur to designate him a Nazarite — that is, mean and abject. ST. RrA-iTHKvr, 45