Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? Ver. 1. _Who hath believed our retort?_] _q.d., _ The Gentiles, some of them, even of their potentates, have believed our report concerning the Messiah: Isa 52:13-15 but, Lord, how few Jews will give credit to what we have s... [ Continue Reading ]
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, [there is] no beauty that we should desire him. Ver. 2. _For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant._] His beginning shall be mean and despicable.... [ Continue Reading ]
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Ver. 3. _He is despised and rejected of men._] Heb., _Desitus virorum,_ one at whom the nature and name of man endeth; as we would s... [ Continue Reading ]
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. Ver. 4. _Surely he hath borne our griefs._] He took our infirmities natural, though not sinful; or, He suffered for our offences. And his _satis_ sufficient passion is our _satis... [ Continue Reading ]
_But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed._ Ver. 5. _But he was wounded for our transgressions._] Not for his own; for he "knew no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth"; ne... [ Continue Reading ]
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Ver. 6. _All we, like sheep, have gone astray._] Gone of our own accords, as "longing to wander"; Jer 14:10 to wander as sheep, lost sheep, than the which no creature i... [ Continue Reading ]
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. Ver. 7. _He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,_] Heb., It, the punishment of our sin, was exacted; and he, being... [ Continue Reading ]
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. Ver. 8. _He was taken from prison and from judgment._] _Absque dilatione et citra iudicium raptus est,_ _sc., _ _ad... [ Continue Reading ]
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither [was any] deceit in his mouth. Ver. 9. _And he made his grave with the wicked,_] _i.e., _ He should have been buried among malefactors had not rich Joseph begged his body. Or, His dead bo... [ Continue Reading ]
_Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put [him] to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand._ Ver. 10. _Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him._] _Singula verba hie... [ Continue Reading ]
_He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities._ Ver. 11. _He shall see of the travail of his soul._] Or, Because his soul laboureth, he shall see (his seed), and be satisfied. A metaph... [ Continue Reading ]
_Therefore will I divide him [a portion] with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; 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._ Ver. 12. _Therefore I will d... [ Continue Reading ]