Pope's Messiah deals with Virgil's Fourth Eclogue which was said to predict the birth of Christ. The poem merges the prophecy of Isaiah about the Messiah with wording that echoes Virgil. Johnson's translation into Latin relies on Virgil directly and incorporates more of the Eclogue's language.
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