Isaiah 22:25 - Exposition

In that day . Not the day of Shebna's fall, certainly ( Isaiah 22:20 ), but some ether. Is not the day that of Christ's earthly mission, when it seemed as if his people were about to acknowledge him, and his throne to be established, but suddenly Messiah was "cut off" ( Daniel 9:26 )—stricken for the transgression of his people ( Isaiah 53:8 )? The burden that was upon it shall be cut off. The great burden upon the Messiah was the load of human sin which he had to bear. "He himself bare our sins in his own body on the tree" ( 1 Peter 2:24 ). By his death this burden was "cut off" ( 1 John 2:2 ; 2 Corinthians 5:19 ; Ephesians 2:16 ; Colossians 2:14 ). For the Lord hath spoken it. The double attestation, at the beginning and at the end of the verse, is a mark of the vast importance of the announcement contained in it, which is , in fact, the germ of the great doctrine of the atonement.