It is fulfilled in the reign of the Redeemer on earth and in his eternal existence and glory in heaven. Oh, but that was grand! Well, ask this man, who is now really in the possession of his true senses, whether he believes that sin deserves punishment; and his answer will be quick, sharp, and decisive. "In the fullness of time" God did rend his Son from his bosom, his only-begotten Son, and freely delivered him up for us all. There was needed, also, one of the same nature with us. In accordance with this, Paul says 2 Corinthians 5:21, that God made him to be sin for us ( hamartian), that is, a sin-offering; and he is called hilasmos and hilasterion, a propitiatory sacrifice for sins Romans 3:25; 1 John 2:2; 1 John 4:10. Remember that Jesus Christ rose again from the dead. Though I do not think that the version is correct, it shows that still it was thought and believed that the Messiah would have a perpetual seed. 3 He was despised and was avoided by men, +. Christ was put to death by the absolute foreknowledge and solemn decree of God the Father, and in this sense "it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief.". They shouted in their fires, and praised God on their racks. THE SIMPLICITY OF THE CROSS - Vs. 2 Absurd! Now as a general rule our bodies have an automatic reflex kind of an action, when we see a blow coming we give with the blow so it cushions the blow. God knew it. He bore your sins. God will give him the heathen for his inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession,Psalms 2:8. He waited his forty days, and then, with shouts of sacred song, he "led captivity captive, and ascended up on high." Underneath the church are the ever lasting arms; but underneath Christ there were no arms at all, but his Father's hand pressed heavily against him; the upper and the nether mill-stones of divine wrath pressed and bruised him; and not one drop of joy or consolation was afforded to him. And so the next time Jesus showed Himself to the disciples, Thomas being present, He said, "Okay, Thomas, go ahead. Dost thou see him there him whom God hath set forth? His disciples buried him. And when we speak of the Saviour of the world, we must always include in that word, if we speak in a large sense, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, for all these three, as one God, do save us from our sins. Jesus didn't answer. Wisdom stepped in, and said, "It shall be done thus;" and Love agreed with Wisdom. The birth of a son to Isaiah. This illustrates more fully what I formerly stated in few words, that the Prophet, in asserting Christs innocence, aims at something more than to defend him from all reproach. Now, we begin by opposing all this, and asserting, and we believe we have God's warrant of it, that sin intrinsically and in itself demands and deserves the just anger of God, and that that anger should be displayed in the form of a punishment. They look upon Him as an unloving, severe Being, who had no love to the human race, and could only be made loving by the death and agonies of our Saviour. In Christ there was no fault; why, then, was the Lord pleased that he should suffer? What is it but an infinite outrage against everything which is honest and right, if these creatures are punished for anything short of their own deserts. It may possibly be gloomy with some of you; but it is not often dark at death-time. Handle him, and see if he be not flesh and bones. He subjected himself to that which to us is the wages of sin (Isaiah 53:12; Isaiah 53:12): He has poured out his soul unto death, poured it out as water, so little account did he make of it, when the laying of it down was the appointed means of our redemption and salvation. For He's cut off. Hark! For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: now he has no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him ( Isaiah 52:15 , Isaiah 53:1-2 ). Think you he would have returned thither with unexpiated sin red upon his garments? They went in the morning after the Sabbath to embalm him. Christ does and will see the blessed fruit of the travail of his soul in the founding and building up of his church and the eternal salvation of all that were given him. Beloved, I think that you know, in your own experience, that it was his death that really operated most upon you in the matter of your conversion. Put your hand in My side." The Septuagint translation by Brenton in Bible Hub reads as follows: "And I will give the wicked for his burial, and the rich for his death; for he practiced no iniquity, nor craft with his mouth.". He determined to do it; it was the result of an eternal counsel; and he delighted in it, as it was an effectual method for the salvation of man and the securing and advancing of the honour of God. (1.) Let it always be our meat and drink, as it was Christ's, to do God's will. He shall see his seed - His posterity; his descendants. "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" The Son of God faints beneath a cross that many a criminal might have carried. The sufferer becomes the conqueror and receives a conquerors reward. Our text gives this a full solution, in that it says, "He shall make his soul an offering for sin." Isaiah 30:18 speaks of the compassion and mercy of God for his people. What do You say for Yourself?" Can you conceive how he stifled his emotions, and, with sobs, exclaimed, "My son, God will provide himself a lamb." Jesus Christ hath ascended up on high, and exalted he is that he may give repentance and remission of sin. If you do not want it it is no hardship that it is not provided for you; but if you really feel that you want it, you are God's elect. The text puts away every hard thought concerning the Father, by telling us that it pleased Jehovah to bruise Jesus Christ. Why his seed? What faith and obedience made man do, that love constrained God himself to do. One would think he were going to a bridal, rather than to be burned. No," says he, "I believe in a just God, and if God be just, he will not punish Christ first, and then punish men afterwards. The great privilege that flows to us from the death of Christ is justification from sin, our being acquitted from that guilt which alone can ruin us, and accepted into God's favour, which alone can make us happy. No man taketh this office upon himself. You guys that watch the Monday night football, you know that. As one that has undertaken for us. Isaiah 53:11. If you be destroyed, it shall be because you would not come to him that you might have life; because you would rebel against him; because sin from stern necessity did, as it were, compel the attribute of divine justice to kindle into vengeance, and to drive you from his presence for ever. It preserves, however, . And one of the elders said unto John, "Don't weep, John. (3.) Those who judge him show neither mercy nor justice; they just send him off to be killed. He stands alone as the only One who has fulfilled these things. Will you be there to answer to your name? Be worthy of your high calling. That the Lord bruised him, not only permitted men to bruise him, but awakened his own sword against him, Zechariah 13:7. Who shall venture to say that the Divine Lord, amidst the glories of heaven, owed to his father anything? That knowledge of Christ, and that faith in him, by which we are justified, have reference to him both as a servant to God and as a surety for us. Oh, how blessedly bright is he! The soldier had made assurance doubly sure by piercing his side. Good News Bible (Catholic edition in Septuagint order) Verse Isaiah 7:25 All the hills where crops used to grow will be so overgrown with thorns that no one will go there. 1O Lord, who has believed our report? But if one reads each passage in Greek, light bulbs start turning on. He's with the rich in His death. (Isaiah) 51:10 LXX - God the Father has engaged to reward the services and sufferings of Christ with great glory: "I will set him among the great, highly exalt him, and give him a name above every name." Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled ( Isaiah 52:13 ). Nothing can be more untrue; and this sermon may help to show that I am full of hope and confidence. Christian people, you ought to have a clannish feeling! 10 Yet it was the Lord's will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes[ a] his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand. I do implore you, do not look upon the sacrifice of Christ as an act of mere vengeance on the Father's part. (3.) And I suppose he was just as surprised to see me and to see what I look like.So we have in our mind sort of a mental image of what Jesus is going to look like and we sort of imagine just being enthralled with the physical beauty of Christ. You, dear hearer, dressed in the garments of family religion, and adorned with the jewels of moral virtue, may be nothing beyond "a child of nature finely dressed, but not the living child." The Septuagint Version . It would not be worth angels singing "Glory to God in the highest" about it, I should think. Isaiah 53:9). We have seen how fit and proper a person he was to be such. If I am to be cast into hell merely that I am to teach to others the tremendousness of the divine holiness, I shall say there is no justice in this; but if my sin intrinsically and of itself deserves the wrath of God, and I am sent to perdition as the result of this fact, I close my lips, and have nothing to say. Though he died, he rose again, and left not his children orphans, but took effectual care to secure to them the spirit, the blessing, and the inheritance of sons. He is still ready to be your strong Helper, and to do for you what he did for needy ones in the days of his sojourn here below. and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? [11] Or (with Masoretic Text) [11] He will see the result of the suffering of his soul and be satisfied [11] Or by knowledge of him no; it is an awful wail of woe that can never be imitated. Thus they have rejected him in his essential character, and there has been no effect produced upon their conduct by their cold admiration of his life. "When we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him.". new york : pott and amery. "He shall see his seed." "Hear not all these things they accuse Thee of? WHAT WAS THE REASON OF THE SAVIOUR'S SUFFERING? This study tabulates, classifies, and analyzes the verses of the Septuagint translation of Isaiah where material is added to the Biblical Hebrew text (pluses) or omitted (minuses), and suggests many pluses and minuses are connected with an individual translators literary preferences. His church, then, will never die out while the world standeth; and throughout eternity that seed must still exist in the endless state; for world without end our Lord Jesus shall see his seed. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief ( Isaiah 53:3 ): Now you probably have in your mind mental pictures of what Paul must have looked like. Brethren, our Savior will always behold his redeemed ones. II. z "quum posueris delictum animam ejus", De Dieu. I read in one of the apocrypha books, one of the early writings, a description of Paul the apostle. Behold, the lion of the tribe of Judah hath prevailed to take the scroll and to loose the seals." The KJV's translation of vv. . Tell them in hell that they are not punished for sin, and you have taken away the very sting of their punishment. 20 A remnant of Israel shall be saved. I tell thee, man, there is nothing of thine own wanted. Because they have envisioned usually something far different than what I look like. In him is light, and the light is the life of men. You remember that Daniel prophesies, "From the time the commandment goes forth to restore and rebuild Jerusalem to the coming of the Messiah the Prince will be seven sevens and sixty-two sevens, three score and two sevens. He has vanquished principalities and powers, sin and Satan, death and hell, the world and the flesh; these are the strong that he has disarmed and taken the spoil of. Oh! In short, (asham) is equivalent to the Latin word piaculum, (56) an expiatory sacrifice. It does not of necessity imply that there was any positive and direct agency on the part of Yahweh in bruising him, but only that the fact of his being thus crushed and bruised was acceptable to him. Christ was an offering for sin, in the sense of a substitute. I'm doing a bit of deep reading trying to pick apart "The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." he sings whilst the fagots are crackling and the smoke is blowing upward. I. O sirs, it is contrary to fact. "Which things the angels desire to look into," said the apostle. Christ conquered for us, and through him we are more than conquerors. And in seeing your redemption, in seeing you in fellowship with God, He's satisfied. That was the purpose of God when He created man-that God might be able to fellowship with man. He could not long be held a prisoner in the tomb. because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. 7And he, because of his affliction, opens not his mouth: he was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is dumb, so he opens not his mouth. When he shall have offered his soul as a sacrifice. Every heir of grace shall meet around the throne. It was the sovereign degree of heaven which constituted Christ the great substitute for his people. +. Tools. Adam Clarke Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 53:5. Oh, but the joy we shall have in being there the delight in beholding his face; yet, if all our joys are put together, they will not equal the joy that he will have when he finds them all there for whom he shed his blood all whom the Father gave him all who gave themselves to him all who were born as his seed not one lost! Ye have no need of shillings to pay the priests; nor is baptismal water wanted to erect the pardon: there is no willing, doing, being, or suffering of yours required to complete the task. And people make mistakes many times in relationships because we relate on the physical, rather than upon the true nature of a person.Now, "He is despised and rejected of men; He is a man of sorrows, He's acquainted with grief.". Here Isaiah declares that it was so shocking. Blessed be the dying Christ! I recollect how I used to turn to that boy of Brentford, who was first beaten with rods, and afterwards tied to the stake, cheerfully to burn for Christ's sake. And that's all I needed. May we put our hand upon the head of Christ Jesus; as we see him offered up upon the cross for guilty men, may we know that our sins are transferred to him, and may we be able to cry, in the ecstasy of faith, "Great God, I am clean; through Jesus' blood I am clean." The idea here is, clearly, that he would be made an offering, or a sacrifice for sin; that by which guilt would be expiated and an atonement made. No beauty that we should desire Him. There is no merit of thine needed; there is merit enough in Christ. You remember Jesus cried on the cross, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" Why, my brethren, if we were only so far atoned for by the death of Christ that any one of us might afterward save himself, Christ's atonement were not worth a farthing, for there is no man of us can save himself no, not under the gospel; for if I am to be saved by faith, if that faith is to be my own act, unassisted by the Holy Spirit, I am as unable to save myself by faith as to save myself by good works. Isaiah 53:11 Or (with Masoretic Text) 11 He will see the fruit of his suffering / and will be satisfied; Isaiah 53:11 Or by knowledge of him; Isaiah 53:12 Or many; Isaiah 53:12 Or numerous Read online Bible study, search parallel bibles, cross reference verses, compare translations & post comments in bible commentaries at qBible.com. II. Oh," says one, "you mean that the Baptists ought to get together!" He has divided the spoils, the fruits of his conquest, to all that are his: let us therefore cast in our lot among them. (Exodus 29:15) And if a private individual offered a sacrifice, he also laid his hand upon it, as if he threw upon it his own sin. Thus, in 1 Kings 3:14, God says to Solomon, if thou wilt walk in my ways, and keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days (see Deuteronomy 25:15; Psalms 21:4; Psalms 91:16; Proverbs 3:2). for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. Isaiah 9:10 Context. I judge it to be the worst cankerworm that assails us. "He is my righteous servant, and as such justifies men." . It is his death that does it. 53:4-9 In these verses is an account of the sufferings of Christ; also of the design of his sufferings. He rose again the third day. The other idea, that sin is only to be punished for the sake of the community, involves injustice. "I must be just," said God; "that is a necessity of my nature. Consequently, we must come to the death of Christ; for in no other way can satisfaction be given to God. The prophet Isaiah prophesied in the Eighth Century B.C. We cannot see them all; but HE shall see his seed. He could not, I will venture to say, even then have suffered an equivalent for that eternal misery which the ungodly deserve; and if he were a mere man, he must suffer precisely the same. In his hand - Under his government and direction. (5.) It is rendered guiltiness Genesis 26:10; sin Proverbs 14:9; trespass Numbers 5:8. Beloved, we become, I say again, the followers of Christ by being made partakers of his life, and unless his life be in us, we may say what we will about Christ, and profess what we like about following him; but we are not in the secret. Isaiah 53:10 Surely this can only mean that God beat Jesus up?! Paul said, "For a righteous man some might dare to die: for a good man peradventure some would even give their lives. You couldn't stand to look at it. The blood has filled the fountain full: thou hast but to wash and be clean, and thy sins shall be gone forever. When you live with the living Christ, you will live indeed. In other words, we'll not be attracted to Him by the physical beauty. He looks into the sinner's eyes, and he sees his own dear Son's image there, and he takes him in. (56) This Latin word, which bore the primary meaning of an atonement for a transgression, and the secondary meaning of any wickedness that requires expiation, is strikingly analogous to the Hebrew word in question, though the transference of the senses is exactly opposite. In the law of Moses it is technically used to designate a certain kind of sacrifice, nearly allied to the (hattath) or sinoffering, and yet very carefully distinguished from it, although etymologists have never yet been able to determine the precise distinction, and a learned modern Rabbi, Samuel Luzzatto, expresses his conviction that they differed only in the mode of offering the blood. Isaiah 53:10-12, Part 10 Posted on December 17, 2021 by admin This is a continuation of a consideration of the differences between the Masoretic text and the Septuagint, a translation of the Hebrew before Israel rejected Jesus as Messiah. I may perhaps forget myself; I may run into sin and I may perish. More than that: Christ has ascended upon high. and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? That he shall live to see his seed. Isaiah Chapter 53. Isaiah 53:10 Hebrew though you make; Isaiah 53:11 Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint); Masoretic Text does not have the light of life. And the pleasure of the Lord - That is, that which shall please Yahweh; the work which he desire and appoints. 7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open . Undoubtedly, it was taken for granted by the offerer, that without shedding blood there was no remission of sin. Doubtless 'universal,' and 'redemption,' where the greatest part of men perish, are as irreconcilable as 'Roman, and 'Catholic.' Be a debtor to that grace to-night. Say that sin is not to be punished, and you have unhinged government; you have plucked up the very gate of our commonweal; you have been another Samson to another Gaza; and we shall soon have to rue the day. Go to your own Christ, your living Christ; make him your familiar Friend, the Acquaintance of your solitude, the Companion of your pilgrimage. The church must perpetually receive fresh light and life from above, or else it would die; but still stands the promise, "He shall see his seed." 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