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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:1

Strange reception of Divine messages. Cheyne translates, "Who believed that which we heard? and the arm of Jehovah, unto whom did it become manifest?" Immediate reference is to the attitude of the people towards Isaiah's assurances of God's restoring mercies, and towards his call to prepare themselves for returning to their own land. Further and fuller reference is to the failure of Messiah to win the general acceptance of the people, to whom he brought the glad tidings of God's "so great... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:1-12

The Messianic interpretation of the chapter was universally acknowledged by the Jews until the time of Aben Ezra. It was also assumed as indisputable by the Christian Fathers. Almost all Christian expositors down to the commencement of the nineteenth century took the same view. It was only under the pressure of the Christian controversy that the later Jews abandoned the traditional interpretation, and applied the prophecy In the present century a certain number of Christian commentators... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:2

For he shall grow up ; rather, now he grew up. The verbs are, all of them, in the past, or completed tense, until Isaiah 53:7 , and are to be regarded as "perfects of prophetic certitude." As Mr. Cheyne remarks, "All has been finished before the foundations of the world in the Divine counsels." Before him; i.e. "before Jehovah"—under the fostering care of Jehovah (comp. Luke 2:40 , Luke 2:52 ). God the Father had his eye ever fixed upon the Son with watchfulness and tenderness and... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:2

The depraved eye. "No beauty that we should desire him." In this prophetic picture of the Christ the question arises, "Who hath believed our report?" What wonderful attestation history gives to this!—"He came unto his own, and his own received him not." Whether the words, "he hath no form nor comeliness," apply to the physical features of Christ, we cannot say; for the Jews had no "art." They interpreted the words, "Thou shalt not make to thyself … the likeness of anything that is in heaven... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:2

The attractive and the unattractive in Jesus Christ. The whole passage is exceedingly remarkable in that it ascribes to one man qualities and surroundings which are so opposed to one another that they seem to be positively inconsistent with each other. And the difficulty has been to find a reconciliation. But all perplexity disappears when they are referred to Jesus Christ; for in him were combined features of character and changes of circumstance which could not be united in any other child... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:2-11

The sufferings of Jesus. It is the great object of Isaiah, in this chapter, to declare to his countrymen I. THE MESSIAH A SUFFERING MESSIAH . Hitherto Isaiah had looked upon the promised Redeemer on the side of his glories and his triumphs. His names were to be "Immanuel," or "God with us" ( Isaiah 7:14 ), "Wonderful," "Counsellor," "The Mighty God," "The Everlasting Father," "The Prince of Peace" ( Isaiah 9:6 ). "Of the increase of his government and peace there was to be no... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:3

He is despised ; rather, was despised (comp. Isaiah 49:7 and Psalms 22:6 ). Men's contempt was shown, partly in the little attention which they paid to his teaching, partly in their treatment of him on the night and day before the Crucifixion. Rejected of men ; rather, perhaps, forsaken of men— "one from whom men held themselves aloof" (Cheyne); comp. Job 19:14 . Our Lord had at no time more than a "little flock" attached to him. Of these, after a time, "many went back, and... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:3

The rejected Saviour. "He is desvised and rejected of men; a Man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief." He! Who? The incarnate Lord, who has grown up in childhood as a " tender plant;" who is the one "living root," while all others are the dry soil of a decrepit and degenerate humanity. I. THIS REVEALS TO US WHAT THE HEBREW CHURCH WAS . Christ was the " to u ch stone" of that Church. Its conduct to him made manifest to what a condition they had come. Think of the... read more

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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

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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

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:1-12

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:2-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 53:3

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