Verse 8
8. From prison and from judgment… who shall declare, etc. Among multifarious interpretations here, that which is least often adopted seems the best, ( Lowth,) namely, Deprived of proper legal detainment and trial the usual prior summoning of witnesses, according to Jewish law who can have the requisite knowledge of his teaching and way of life in such a precipitate condemnation? The Hebrew preposition mem, (English, from,) before the words rendered “prison,” and “judgment,” denotes the unjust privative fact, or legal right denied to him; and Christ’s own reference when before Pilate (John 18:20-21) to the Jewish law of trial, adds force to this interpretation, which is further sustained by the following clause.
For he was cut off out of the land of the living And this with indecent haste; with no chance for a proper trial: all this, too, because he was willing to suffer for the sins of the people of Israel and of the world.
Was he stricken Hebrew, The stroke was upon him.
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