Chapter 53:
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Isaiah 53
The incredulity of the Jews; the death of Christ, and the
blessed effects thereof, ver. 1-10. His exaltation and glory, ver.
11, 12.
Verse 1. Who - Who, not only of the Gentiles, but even of the Jews, will
believe the truth of what I say? And this premonition was highly
necessary, both to caution the Jews that they should not stumble at
this stone, and to instruct the Gentiles that they should not be
seduced with their example. The arm - The Messiah, called the
arm or power of God, because the almighty power of God was
seated in him. Revealed - Inwardly and with power.
Verse 2. As a root - And the reason why the Jews will generally reject
their Messiah, is, because he shall not come into the world with
secular pomp, but he shall grow up, (or spring up, out of the
ground) before him, (before the unbelieving Jews, of whom he
spake ver. 1, and that in the singular number, as here, who were
witnesses of his mean original; and therefore despised him) as a
tender plant (small and inconsiderable) and as a root, or branch,
grows out of a dry, barren ground. No form - His bodily presence
shall be mean and contemptible. No beauty - This the prophet
speaks in the person of the unbelieving Jews. We - Our people,
the Jewish nation.
Verse 3. We hid - We scorned to look upon him.
Verse 4. Yet - Our people believed that he was thus punished by the just
judgment of God.
Verse 5. Wounded - Which word comprehends all his pains and
punishments. For our iniquities - For the guilt of their sins, which
he had voluntarily taken upon himself, and for the expiation of
their sins, which was hereby purchased. The chastisement - Those
punishments by which our peace, our reconciliation to God, was
to be purchased, were laid upon him by God's justice with his own
consent. Healed - By his sufferings we are saved from our sins.
Verse 6. We - All mankind. Astray - From God. Have turned - In
general, to the way of sin, which may well be called a man's own
way, because sin is natural to us, inherent in us, born with us; and
in particular, to those several paths, which several men chuse,
according to their different opinions, and circumstances. Hath laid
- Hebrew. hath made to meet, as all the rivers meet in the sea. The
iniquity - Not properly, for he knew no sin; but the punishment of
iniquity, as that word is frequently used. That which was due for
all the sins of all mankind, which must needs be so heavy a load,
that if he had not been God as well as man, he must have sunk
under the burden.
Verse 7. He opened not - He neither murmured against God, nor reviled
men.
Verse 8. Taken away - Out of this life. By distress and judgment - By
oppression and violence. and a pretense of justice. His generation
- His posterity. For his death shall not be unfruitful; when he is
raised from the dead, he shall have a spiritual seed, a numberless
multitude of those who shall believe in him. Cut off - By a violent
death. And this may be added as a reason of the blessing of a
numerous posterity conferred upon him, because he was willing to
be cut off for the transgression of his people.
Verse 9. With the wicked - This was a farther degree of humiliation. He
saith, he made his grave, because this was Christ's own act, and he
willingly yielded up himself to death and burial. And that which
follows, with the wicked, does not denote the sameness of place,
as if he should be buried in the same grave with other malefactors,
but the sameness of condition.
Verse 10. He - God was the principal cause of all his sufferings, tho'
mens sins were the deserving cause. When - When thou, O God,
shalt have made, thy son a sacrifice, by giving him up to death for
the atonement of mens sins. His soul is here put for his life, or for
himself. Shall see - He shall have a numerous issue of believers
reconciled by God, and saved by his death. Prolong - He shall live
and reign with God for ever. The pleasure - God's gracious decree
for the salvation of mankind shall be effectually carried on by his
ministry and mediation.
Verse 11. Shall see - He shall enjoy. The travel - The blessed fruit of all
his labours, and sufferings. Satisfied - He shall esteem his own
and his father's glory, and the salvation of his people, an abundant
recompence. By his knowledge - By the knowledge of him.
Justify - Acquit them from the guilt of their sins, and all the
dreadful consequences thereof. And Christ is said to justify
sinners meritoriously, because he purchases and procures it for us.
Many - An innumerable company of all nations. For - For he shall
satisfy the justice of God, by bearing the punishment due to their
sins.
Verse 12. I - God the father. A portion - Which is very commodiously
supplied out of the next clause. With the strong - God will give
him happy success in his glorious undertaking: he shall conquer
all his enemies, and set up his universal and everlasting kingdom
in the world. Because - Because he willingly laid down his life.
Transgressors - He prayed upon earth for all sinners, and
particularly for those that crucified him, and in heaven he still
intercedes for them, by a legal demand of those good things which
he purchased; by the sacrifice of himself, which, though past, he
continually represents to his father, as if it were present.
Chapter 53:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 Song of Solomon Jeremiah
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