[Footnote 16: The heretics abused the passionate exclamation
of "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Rousseau,
who has drawn an eloquent, but indecent, parallel between
Christ and Socrates, forgets that not a word of impatience
or despair escaped from the mouth of the dying philosopher.
In the Messiah, such sentiments could be only apparent; and
such ill-sounding words were properly explained as the
application of a psalm and prophecy.]