From the failure of former commentators, in shewing how this can apply to
the betrayal of Christ, when the word שכרי (or ירכש) is rendered, as it
should be, _wages_ or _reward_, instead of _price_, the Jew seems to have
been so confident of victory on this point, that on referring to his
exposition which follows, it will appear that he must have written it
without having read mine, to which it is any thing but an answer, as I
have expounded the passage precisely upon his own mode of rendering. The
correctness of this translation was acquiesced in by Dr. Blaney, who
admitted the difficulty it involved, and candidly acknowledged his
inability to solve it; nor while Christ is considered the speaker, as he
and Lowth suppose, does the removal of it appear practicable. But when God
himself is understood to be the Shepherd, and Christ, the staff Beauty, it
appears no longer insurmountable.