Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great, apportion to Him the many, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong, the mighty ones becoming subject to Him, because He hath poured out His soul unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors, and He bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors, being their Mediator even today. The work of redemption ends with the Servant's satisfied contemplation of His atoning work, of the consequences of the travail of His soul. Now the knowledge of Him, that is, His Gospel, through which we learn to know Him as the Savior of the world, makes men righteous. It is a grand view of His work which He has before His eyes: the many made partakers of His work, of His atonement, since His sin-bearing is the basis of our righteousness. And, so the prophecy ends with a note of conquest and triumph. Not only has God apportioned to His Servant the many, but God's power and that of His Servant are placed side by side, gathering men, even the mighty of the earth, as their spoil. The fact that He poured out His life in death, that He bore the sins of many, is now the everlasting foundation of His work as our Advocate with the Father; on the basis of that He makes continual intercession for us. Such is Christ's work of vicarious atonement, as it was preached to the believers of the Old Testament, as we now know it to have been fulfilled.

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