We are made his seed through his death. He hath put him to grief - This word, hath grieved him, is the same which in another form occurs in Isaiah 53:4. It would be the deliberate act of Yahweh. In what sense could it be said of Ignatius or Cranmer that their souls or lives were made an offering ( 'asham or hilasmos) for sin? It makes one thrill with horror as he reads of women tossed on the horns of bulls, or set in red-hot iron chairs; and men smeared with honey to be stung to death by wasps, or dragged at the heels of wild horses, or exposed to savage beasts in the amphitheatre. And that's all I needed. Love is blind, they say. It was for our sins, and in our stead, that our Lord Jesus suffered. Note, (1.) What multitudes of men lift up their eyes, and behold the starry orbs of heaven! 1869 . The language here is taken from that which was regarded as the highest blessing among the Hebrews. (4.) If he can see the guy coming, you just sort of, you reflex action to it and you sort of go with it. You know the patriarch. No inferior hand hath sketched even so much as the least minute parts of providence. If there is an anxious soul, they seek to find him out. Why, then, are not all saved? Isaiah 53:10 - But the Lord was pleased To crush Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand. for he shall bear their iniquities ( Isaiah 53:11 ). He shall see his seed. Complete it is, dear brethren, not only in itself, but, as I said, in its effects; that is to say, that there is now complete pardon for every soul which believeth in Christ. Now, we begin by opposing all this, and asserting, and we believe we have God's warrant of it, that sin intrinsically and in itself demands and deserves the just anger of God, and that that anger should be displayed in the form of a punishment. The servants suffering and glory (52:13-53:12). He shall prolong his days Or this spiritual progeny shall prolong their days, i.e., Christianity shall endure to the end of time. 647. 4 Truly he himself carried our sicknesses, +. Note, [1.] Tomorrow is my wedding-day, the day for which I have long panted, when I shall sign the testimony of my life by a glorious deaths." That knowledge of Christ, and that faith in him, by which we are justified, have reference to him both as a servant to God and as a surety for us. Masoretic Text. 1 The prophet, complaining of incredulity, excuseth the scandal of the cross, 4 by the benefit of his passion, 10 and the good success thereof. 5 But he was wounded on account of our sins, and was bruised because of our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and by his bruises we were healed. In his hand - Under his government and direction. "He that believeth on him is not condemned;" "There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus." The gift of a Saviour, such as he was, evinced boundless benevolence; his sufferings in behalf of the guilty showed the holiness of his nature and law; and all demonstrated that he was at the same time disposed to save, and yet resolved that no one should be saved by dishonoring his law, or without expiation for the evil which had been done by sin. The use of analogous expressions in the New Testament will be dear, from a comparison of Romans 3:25; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 John 2:2; Hebrews 9:14 In the case last quoted, as in that before us, Christ is represented as offering himself to God. Alexander, (55) In both of the passages quoted by our author, the word is not (asham) but (hattath), which, as appears from the preceding note, is closely analogous. Think you he would have returned thither with unexpiated sin red upon his garments? "The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." The marks were still there. He would also prolong His days by resurrecting Him (cf. what a debtor to grace you will be! Christ will see generation after generation of those redeemed by his blood who shall be born into his family, and shall call him blessed. In Christ there was no fault; why, then, was the Lord pleased that he should suffer? And one of the elders said unto John, "Don't weep, John. When thou shalt make his soul - Margin, His soul shall make. According to the translation in the text, the speaker is the prophet, and it contains an address to Yahweh, and Yahweh is himself introduced as speaking in Isaiah 53:11. Thus much on our first point. He has set upon the strong man armed, dispossessed him, and divided the spoil. It is not as if Christ had put so much into the scale and it was quivering in the balance; but your sins, for all their gravity, utterly ceased their pressure through the tremendous weight of his atonement. It is Christ's life that is in every true believer "For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God; when Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory." And he bore our pains. I mean, just a dull evening. That is, with His face covered they began to hit Him. He overlooks both Pilate and Herod, and traces it to the heavenly Father, the first Person in the Divine Trinity. In the Isaiah 53:19 the prophet had testified very particularly of the sufferings of Christ, yet mixing some hints of the happy issue of them; here he again mentions his sufferings, but largely foretels the glory that should follow. What can you do? He suffered all the horror of hell: in one pelting shower of iron wrath it fell upon him, with hail-stones bigger than a talent; and he stood until the black cloud had emptied itself completely. So it seems this "version" of Isaiah 53:10 was generally well known and accepted. And it so often is very shocking when you see the person that you've been listening to. Show the nobility of your pedigree by the magnanimity of your lives. God did not send Christ forever into hell; but he put on Christ, punishment that was equivalent for that. II. He did bear those marks after the resurrection. Isaiah 55. I cannot preach upon that most precious topic, but I wish you to think it over: it is a divine pleasure to the Lord Jesus to look at you: it is promised him as a reward for his death. Well, whoever wrote that chorus doesn't have a real understanding of scripture, because they have taken it out of its context. See! he sees your first desires, your humble breathings, your lowly hopes, your trembling approaches. One hundred years ago or so, throughout the most of our Dissenting churches, a sort of Unitarianism was triumphant. Thus the name father is often given to the prophets, or to teachers, and the name sons to disciples or learners. Doubtless 'universal,' and 'redemption,' where the greatest part of men perish, are as irreconcilable as 'Roman, and 'Catholic.' Learn from this that all who truly follow Christ, and are saved by him, have his life in them. I want even you, who do not know him, to remember that he lives, that you may seek him to-night that ere another sun shall rise you may find him, and, finding him, may yourselves be found, and saved. Christ hath bought a "multitude that no man can number." for his life is taken away from the earth: because of the iniquities of my people he was led to death. The martyrs said not that: God was with them. I may be called Antinomian or Calvinist for preaching a limited atonement; but I had rather believe a limited atonement that is efficacious for all men for whom it was intended, than an universal atonement that is not efficacious for anybody, except the will of man be joined with it. As God now speaks about His servant, His only begotten Son, "who was in the form of God, and thought it not something to be grasped to be equal with God: and yet He humbled Himself and took on the likeness of man or the form of man and came in likeness of man. The first living cry, the first living tear, he observes. But then it follows, if we are thus of a seed, that we ought to be united, and love each other more and more. Whatever is undertaken according to God's pleasure shall prosper, Isaiah 46:10; Isaiah 46:10. I thought, "Man alive, this is going to be great!" Then shall the sheep pass again under the hand of him that telleth them, and he will count them, for he knows whom he bought with his blood, and he will see that they are there in full tale. Now we say that Christ was the best person to be a substitute; for just consider what sort of a mediator was needed. That he bruised him so as to put him to grief. According to the Letter of Aristeas, at least 72 scholars at Alexandria translated the Hebrew Bible, . Christianity is not a natural growth: it is constantly a divine creation. God will be glorified, penitent believers will be justified, and then Christ will be satisfied. Brethren, our Savior will always behold his redeemed ones. He bore our griefs, and he carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. (5.) He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief ( Isaiah 53:3 ): Now you probably have in your mind mental pictures of what Paul must have looked like. They were all persuaded that he had really died. Have we not all around us persons who say that they are Christians, and are not, but do lie. How can it be done? We are his seed. The Exaltation of the Messiah; The Triumph of the Messiah. [3.] You have, shall I say? It was all, from its Alpha to its Omega, from its divine preface to its solemn finis, marked out, designed, sketched, and planned by the mind of the all-wise, all-knowing God. You may stifle this voice, if you will, but sometimes you will hear it; and terribly and decisively will it speak in your ears to say to you, "Yes, man, God must punish you; the Judge of all the earth cannot suffer you to go scot free." But not for Himself, but for the people" ( Daniel 9:25-26 ). They esteemed him smitten of God for some very great sin of his own (Isaiah 53:4; Isaiah 53:4); now it was true that he was smitten of God, but it was for our sin; the Lord bruised him, for he did not spare him, but delivered him up for us all,Romans 8:32. According to the margin, Yahweh himself speaks, and the idea is, that his soul should make an offering for sin. 3. "We love him because he first loved us." His grace ultimately comes through Jesus Christ, Messiah. They hurry from the house silently and noiselessly, before the mother is awake. 2. They answered, "We go to see him burn that we may learn the way." He said, "Answerest Thou not me? One man who is drawn for the militia cannot be a substitute for another person so drawn, because he owes for himself his own personal service. Take it as a standing miracle that there are any godly people on the face of the earth; for there would not be one were it not for the exertion of miraculous power. Christ has done a good deal for me, but not quite enough, unless I do something." Ed. Brenton's Septuagint & Holy Name King James Version with Strong's numbers in Hebrew. He didn't know what he had on his hands and he did his best to free Him. You would not like to tell her all you have thought of her: you have looked at her with intense delight. The grace and glories of his state of exaltation; and the graces he confers on us are not the least of the glories conferred on him. I notice that the word is in the plural He shall see his seeds," as though some were truly his seed, and yet for a time, at least, differed from the rest. But if you don't see that big tackle barreling in on you, and he hits you without your having any ability to defend yourself by the feigning that a person does, that's when you get the broken bones. III. Isaiah 9:10 Context. I was shocked when I first met Dr. McGee and I didn't think he would look like that at all with that southern voice. If they are redeemed, then are they delivered from all misery, virtually or actually, whereunto they were inthralled, and that by the intervention of a ransom. He's with the rich in His death. Do not try to live without the living, loving Friend of sinners. Thus they have rejected him in his essential character, and there has been no effect produced upon their conduct by their cold admiration of his life. Can you conceive how he stifled his emotions, and, with sobs, exclaimed, "My son, God will provide himself a lamb." author: richard frederick littledale a commentary on the song of songs. Has man cast thee out? And you say, "Did Christ drink it all to its dregs?" "In that he died he died unto sin once; but in that he liveth he liveth unto God," no more to die. The Septuagint reads it, "He shall see a long-lived seed." septuagint isaiah 53:10 "The Lord is willing to cleanse him of the injury. Mark how the rough nails are making the blood flow profusely from his feet! They go together; and who shall paint the unutterable anguish of the father's soul, whilst he walks side by side with that beloved son, of whom he is to be the executioner? To establish this, let me appeal to the conscience I will not say to the conscience of a man who has, by years of sin, dwindled it down to the very lowest degree, but let me appeal to the conscience of an awakened sinner, a sinner under the influence of the Holy Spirit. The name Septuagint comes from the Latin word for "seventy." The tradition is that 70 (or 72) Jewish scholars were the translators behind the Septuagint. Isa 3:10 . Christ was thus troubled, because his soul was an offering for sin. 8In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: who shall declare his generation? Have you ever looked at something that was so shocking you couldn't look; you turned your face? The Son of man had power even on earth to forgive sin. We come now to our fourth remark, THAT CHRIST'S WORK, AND THE EFFECTS OF THAT WORK, ARE NOW COMPLETE. I say, most solemnly, I do. First it is traceable in decree. There may be emphasis on the word see - he shall see his posterity, for it was regarded as a blessing not only to have posterity, but to be permitted to live and see them. I judge it to be the worst cankerworm that assails us. For you remember Thomas said, "Except I can put my fingers into His hand and thrust my hand into His side, I won't believe" ( John 20:25 ). I think I might venture to assert that if you go to the most degraded race of men, you would still find, at least, some traces of this shall I call it tradition? "He was numbered with the transgressors.". Religion will be promoted and extended through him. You shall not stand out against him. The structure of Isaiah also argues for its unity. I. He suffered so much for our redemption, that he must love us. We cannot see them all; but HE shall see his seed. Hence it follows that nowhere but in Christ is found expiation and satisfaction for sin. You, dear hearer, dressed in the garments of family religion, and adorned with the jewels of moral virtue, may be nothing beyond "a child of nature finely dressed, but not the living child." 1O Lord, who has believed our report? ". It does not of necessity imply that there was any positive and direct agency on the part of Yahweh in bruising him, but only that the fact of his being thus crushed and bruised was acceptable to him. Such is Jesus Christ. So may it be in your heart towards all those that belong to Christ! He has outweighed the penalty, and given double for all your sins. for he was cut off ( Isaiah 53:8 ). he speaks. Remember, too, that acceptance is finished. How is it that the Father can embrace the prodigal? Truly it has satisfied God: is there not enough there to satisfy thee? Now that scripture has been carelessly interpreted by many people as just lifting up Jesus. It is the very same word that Jesus used in the New Testament when talking to His disciples said, "And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto Me" ( John 12:32 ). His soul - The word rendered here soul ( nephesh) means properly breath, spirit, the life, the vital principle Genesis 1:20-30; Genesis 9:4; Leviticus 17:11; Deuteronomy 12:23. We have sure and infallible proofs of it. Do not imagine that we preach a gospel in this place for respectable, godly people. Take him to the fire and burn the filth! Isaiah 53:10 . Rather than dying childless, Yahweh would bless the Servant with many spiritual children, future believers (cf. It is a sharp sword with two edges, if it be preached as it was delivered at the first. He doesn't even look like a human being. We shall not be solitary spectators of the fearful tragedy of our Saviour's death: we shall but dart our eyes to that place which is the focus of heaven's joy and delight, the cross of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. There are multitudes of religious people, very religious people; but they are as dead as door-nails. He shall see his seed, number his followers in the countless millions; he shall prolong his days, be raised from the dead; the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand, 1e., righteousness shall prosper in the world; he shall justify many, 1e., countless millions shall be saved from their sins through him; I will divide him a portion with the great, Jesus Christ shall attain worldwide and perpetual "greatness." Oh, the joy, the delight, of our Well-beloved in that day! Go to your own Christ, your living Christ; make him your familiar Friend, the Acquaintance of your solitude, the Companion of your pilgrimage. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." For one who was indeed put to death, this is undeniably a prophecy of his resurrection from the dead. He that is himself righteous (for he could not have made atonement for our sin if he had had any sin of his own to answer for) is made of God to us righteousness, the Lord our righteousness. He will not come short of his end in any part of his work, but will himself see that he has not laboured in vain. Isaiah 53:8). (2.) There shall be a vicarious suffering; and my vengeance shall be content, and my mercy shall be gratified." (2.) And so Jesus said, "I came not to do My own will but the will of the One who sent Me" ( John 6:38 ). 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