Verse 24
24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Yet. 24. Who his own self ] Without any to help or uphold him, Isaiah 63:5 ; he had not so much as the benefit of the sunlight, when in that three hours’ darkness he was set upon by all the powers of darkness.
Bare our sins ] Gr. ανηνεγκεν , bare them aloft, viz. when he climbed up his cross, and nailed them thereunto. "Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows," Isaiah 53:4 . He "taketh away the sins of the world," John 1:29 .
That we being dead to sins ] απογενομενοι , or, separated from sin, or uumade to it, cut off from it, the old frame being utterly dissolved.
By whose stripes ] Or, welts. This he mentioneth to comfort poor servants, whipped and abused by their froward masters. Sanguis medici factus est medicina phrenetici . The physician’s blood became the sick man’s salve. We can hardly believe the power of sword salve. But here is a mystery that only Christian religion cau assure us of, that the wounding of one should be the cure of another.
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