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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:3

The Man of sorrows. We feel that there is but One of our race to whom this title properly belongs; One who may wear it as a crown upon his brow, inasmuch as his sorrows do him higher honour than the most conspicuous success ever conferred on human spirit. It does belong to him, not in virtue of the fact that his outward career involved more cruel hardships than those ever borne before; but in virtue of the fact that his spirit was such as to make his endurance more grievous than that ever... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:3

Man's disposition to reject his best blessings. Philip the evangelist, from this, and the connected passage, preached unto the eunuch Jesus. This is sufficient reason for our associating it with Messiah. The chapter concerns the human life, the sorrowful experience, the shameful death, and the eternal triumph of the Son of God. The story of the Christ can be gathered up and expressed in a sentence," He is despised and rejected of men; a Man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief." The... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:4

Surely he hath borne our griefs ; or, surely they were our griefs which he bore. The pronouns are emphatic. Having set forth at length the fact of the Servant's humiliation ( Isaiah 53:2 , Isaiah 53:3 ), the prophet hastens to declare the reason of it. Twelve times over within the space of nine verses he asserts. with the most emphatic reiteration, that all the Servant's sufferings were vicarious, borne for him, to save him from the consequences of his sins, to enable him to escape... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:4-5

The Divine account of the sufferings of Christ. In these words, which remain ever fresh and sacred, though they are so familiar to our hearts, we have— I. A SAD AND STRIKING PICTURE . It is the picture of the Servant of the Lord, wounded, bruised, chastened, stricken. We cannot fail to see in it the sufferings of the holy Saviour. We see him: 1 . Wounded in body; not only a-hungered and athirst, not only weary with long-continued labours and without the promise of the soft... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:4-5

Man's thoughts of God's Sufferer. The prophet sets before us an unusual Sufferer, and bids us think what can be the explanation of such sufferings. 1 . It might be punishment for sin; as was David's bitter trial in the matter of Absalom. 2 . It might be discipline of character; as was the suffering of Job. Neither of these will suffice for the case that Isaiah presents. 3 . It might be vicarious, a burden-bearing for others. This only will suffice to explain the unusual woes of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:4-6

The suffering Servant of Jehovah. I. THE DESCRIPTION OF THE SUFFERING . It depicts, by simple force of language, its extreme intensity—not a suffering springing from internal weakness of nature, and so withering and dying like a lamp for want of oil, but " like a torch in its full flame bent and ruffled, and at length blown out by the breath of a north wind." It was a diffused suffering, according to the expression of the psalmist, "like water in his bowels, or oil in his... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 53:3

He is despised - This requires no explanation; and it needs no comment to show that it was fulfilled. The Redeemer was eminently the object of contempt and scorn alike by the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the Romans. In his life on earth it was so; in his death it was still so; and since then, his name and person have been extensively the object of contempt. Nothing is a more striking fulfillment of this than the conduct of the Jews at the present day. The very name of Jesus of Nazareth excites... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 53:4

Surely - This is an exceedingly important verse, and is one that is attended with considerable difficulty, from the manner in which it is quoted in the New Testament. The general sense, as it stands in the Hebrew, is not indeed difficult. It is immediately connected in signification with the previous verse. The meaning is, that those who had despised and rejected the Messiah, had greatly erred in condemning him on account of his sufferings and humiliation. ‘We turned away from him in horror and... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 53:2-3

Isaiah 53:2-3. For he shall grow up, &c. And the reason why the Jews will generally reject their Messiah is, because he shall not come into the world with secular pomp, but he shall grow up, (or, spring up, out of the ground,) before him, (before the unbelieving Jews, of whom he spake, Isaiah 53:1, and that in the singular number, as here, who were witnesses of his mean original; and therefore despised him,) as a tender plant, (small and inconsiderable,) and as a root, or ... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 53:4-5

Isaiah 53:4-5. Surely he hath borne our griefs Whereas it may seem an incredible thing, that so excellent and glorious, and so innocent and holy a person should meet with this usage, it must be known that his griefs and miseries were not laid upon him for his own sake, but wholly for the sake of sinful men, in whose stead he stood, and for whose sins he suffered: yet we did esteem him Yet our people, the Jews, were so far from giving him the glory and praise of such astonishing... read more

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