";s:4:"text";s:27316:"Take him to the bath and wash him! he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth ( Isaiah 53:7 ). THE SIMPLICITY OF THE CROSS - Vs. 2 One would think he were going to a bridal, rather than to be burned. "What for?" Mark, not a chance salvation. Anyone standing there, when the thousands upon thousands gloated their eyes with the sufferings of Christians, would have said, "Christianity will die out; but the Colosseum, so firmly built will stand to the end of time;" but lo, the Colosseum is a ruin, and the church of God more firm, more strong, more glorious than ever! Do you know anything about this divine life? But Jesus rose. The word is here used not with spedfie reference to this kind of oblation, but as a generic term for expiatory sacrifice. But perhaps the Lord still bears the marks of His suffering for you. london : joseph masters, aldersgate street, and new bond street. "And I, if I be lifted up." Piaculum committere means literally to commit a sacrifice, that is, to commit a crime for which a sacrifice is required. Ed. This perception of redeeming love, in the death of our Lord Jesus, makes all the difference: this prepares us for a higher and a better life than we have ever known before. "Thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin." No; my Saviour died, and now I am free from every demand of God's vengeance, and I can walk through this world secure; no thunderbolt can smite me, and I can die absolutely certain that for me there is no flame of hell, and no pit digged; for Christ, my ransom, suffered in my stead, and, therefore, am I clean delivered. Take him to the fire and burn the filth! We are naturally sold under sin, and we cannot discern the spiritual and real Christ until we have a spirit created within us by the new birth, of which he said, "Ye must be born again." "Well, but what, in the name of goodness, do you want to see him burnt for? If you look to him, rest you well assured that he looks to you. (Isaiah 53:10-12) Hebrew translation. (4.) never indulge the idea, that Jesus died to make the Father complacent towards us. he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed ( Isaiah 53:5 ). Isaiah 53:10. He shall see his seed." Isaiah Chapter 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31. It is well to know whither the age is driving. I. I have profited greatly from R. R. Ottley, The Book of Isaiah according to the LXX (Codex Alexandrinus) (3 vols; London: Cambridge University Press, 1904-1906). Seeing ones offspring was a blessing on those whom God favored (cf. Many, when they see their seed, their seed's seed, wish to depart in peace; but Christ will not commit the care of his family to any other, no, he shall himself live long, and of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, for he ever lives. You need not to be told, as for the first time, that God in his infinite mercy has devised a way by which justice can be satisfied, and yet mercy can be triumphant. Here Isaiah declares that it was so shocking. The Lord having established the principle of substitution, having provided a substitute, and having through him bestowed upon us gratuitously innumerable mercies, let us observe THAT JESUS IS THE MOST FITTING PERSON TO BE A SUBSTITUTE, AND THAT HIS WORK IS THE MOST FITTING WORK TO BE A SATISFACTION. I'm guilty! They are no more responsible for the death of Jesus Christ than you or I. He died to purchase and purify them to himself, fell to the ground as a corn of wheat, that he might bring forth much fruit,John 12:24. ". It wants no eking out. We cost him so much, that he must delight in us. 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 Lord will yet fetch you up from the depths of the sea. He looks into the sinner's eyes, and he sees his own dear Son's image there, and he takes him in. They are the ones who have turned away from God and they are the ones for whom the servant dies. author: richard frederick littledale a commentary on the song of songs. This is what is called the governmental theory, that it is necessary for the maintenance of good order that an offender should be punished, but that there is nothing in sin itself which absolutely requires a penalty. And we shouldn't seek to blame someone else for our own guilt and to persecute someone else for that for which we are ourselves responsible. But do you know the limit of it? 10 The Lord also is pleased to purge him from his stroke. You don't get the full brunt of it. 100% Safe Payment. Thus he shall bear the iniquities of the many that he designed to justify (Isaiah 53:11; Isaiah 53:11), shall take away the sin of the world by taking it upon himself, John 1:29. I hope soon to be lifting up my voice again. It would please Yahweh to crush His Servant and to put Him to grief. She had a beautiful face, but man, she was a dud. He shall see his seed; or, "a seed"; a spiritual seed and offspring; a large number of souls, that shall be born again, of incorruptible seed, as the fruit of his sufferings and death; see John 12:24, this he presently began to see after his resurrection from the dead, and ascension to heaven; when great numbers were converted among the Jews, and after that multitudes in the Gentile world, and more or less in all ages; ever since has he had a seed to serve him; and so he will in the latter day, and to the end of time: he shall prolong his days: live long, throughout all ages, to all eternity; though he was dead, he is alive, and lives for evermore; lives to see all the children that the Father gave him, and he has gathered together by his death, when scattered abroad, and see them all born again, and brought to glory. The structure of Isaiah also argues for its unity. Thus have I talked with you in a very poor and feeble way, as far as my speech is concerned: but the doctrine is not feeble, the gospel is not poor. It must be the character of God, that he has a desire to do towards his creatures that which is equitable. The use of analogous expressions in the New Testament will be dear, from a comparison of Romans 3:25; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 John 2:2; Hebrews 9:14 In the case last quoted, as in that before us, Christ is represented as offering himself to God. Alexander, (55) In both of the passages quoted by our author, the word is not (asham) but (hattath), which, as appears from the preceding note, is closely analogous. He shall prolong his days Or this spiritual progeny shall prolong their days, i.e., Christianity shall endure to the end of time. The gallant vessel of the church ploughed the red waves of a crimson sea, her prow scarlet with gore, but the ship itself was the better for its washing, and sailed all the more gallantly because of boisterous winds. . I know you're troubled, Pilate." I pause once more; for I hear some timid soul say "But, sir, I am afraid I am not elect, and if so, Christ did not die for me." It was as if his face were hidden from us. The third morning came, and the conqueror, rising from his sleep burst the iron bonds of death, and came forth from his prison house, no more to die. In his whole life he was numbered among the transgressors; for he was called and accounted a sabbath-breaker, a drunkard, and a friend to publicans and sinners. And, last of all, by Christ's death the Father's good pleasure was effected and prospered. 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. Doubtless 'universal,' and 'redemption,' where the greatest part of men perish, are as irreconcilable as 'Roman, and 'Catholic.' Fast Delivery. As he was the root of the Jewish church, and the covenant was made with him and his seed, so is Christ of the universal church and with him and his spiritual seed is the covenant of grace made, which is grounded upon and grafted in the covenant of redemption, which here we have some of the glorious promises of. Shall prosper in his hand. Wilt thou now trust Christ with thy soul? They believe in an atonement made for every body; but then, their atonement is just this. We have no weapon against this monster, with the double tower on its back, but the gospel of the grace of God. Hearest thou the cry of his spirit, which is suffering more than his body suffers "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" He turns to some who look upon him, and exclaims, "I value these iron chains far more than if they had been of gold; it is a sweet thing to die for Christ. This is none other than God's only-begotten Son; this is he who made the worlds; this is the express image of his Father's person, the brightness of Jehovah's glory! He'll be crucified. We are his seed. He will see all his seed to the last. The more assured we are of his death, the more assured we feel of the life of all who are in him. The word here is the infinitive of Piel. Evidently the death of Christ was fruitful of a seed for him. We must also keep in view the contrast. Why! [i] His thoughts on these difficulties can be summarized in the following three points: The servant is never specifically identified. For this purpose he became man, of the substance of his mother, very man, such a man as any of us. +. Our second head must explain the first, or otherwise it is an insolvable mystery how God should bruise his Son, who was perfect innocence, while poor fallible confessors and martyrs have had no such bruising from him in the time of their trial. They believe that Judas was atoned for just as much as Peter; they believe that the damned in hell were as much an object of Jesus Christ's satisfaction as the saved in heaven; and though they do not say it in proper words, yet they must mean it, for it is a fair inference, that in the case of multitudes, Christ died in vain, for he died for them all, they say; and yet so ineffectual was his dying for them, that though he died for them they are damned afterward. These are secured to him by the covenant of redemption, which Isaiah 53:10-12 give us some idea of. (2.) We will consider the Story of the Cross. They would not have left him in the cave if they had felt any doubt about his death. 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. So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them they shall see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider. O thou who feelest in thine own body the effect of thy sin, till thou art loathing thyself, and wishing thou hadst never been born perhaps thou sayest, like John Bunyan, "Oh that I had been a frog, or a toad, or a snake, sooner than have been a man, to have fallen into such sin, and to have become so foul!" Do you know anything about this new birth? 2We brought a report as of a child before him; he is as a root in a thirsty land: he has no form nor comeliness; and we saw him, but he had no form nor beauty. He shall see it beforehand (so it may be understood); he shall with the prospect of his sufferings have a prospect of the fruit, and he shall be satisfied with the bargain. Christian life needs to have daily the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Taking our text, then, as a guide, we propose to visit Calvary, hoping to have the help of the Holy Spirit whilst we look upon him who died upon the cross. 2. In trying now to expound the doctrine of Christ's being an offering for sin, we will begin by laying down one great axiom; which is, that SIN DESERVES AND DEMANDS PUNISHMENT. "He is my righteous servant, and as such justifies men." I may perhaps forget myself; I may run into sin and I may perish. for he shall bear their iniquities ( Isaiah 53:11 ). Masoretic Text. 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 With its theater and public-house, it carries on its back two of the greatest instruments of evil yet known. It was as a substitute for sin that he did actually and literally suffer punishment for the sin of all his elect. I was shocked when I first met Dr. McGee and I didn't think he would look like that at all with that southern voice. id est, Piacula commissa propter quae expiatio debetur. Serv. a "Ubi posuit satisfactionis pretium anima ejus", Cocceius; "si posuerit delictum sua anima", Montanus. He shall see a great increase of them; the word is plural, He shall see his seeds, multitudes of them, so many that they cannot be numbered. Brethren, our Savior will always behold his redeemed ones. This is the gate of entrance into discipleship. ALL of these three . "Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand." He loved not his life unto the death, and his followers, the martyrs, did likewise, Revelation 12:11. Will he not sing sweeter songs than ever came from martyr's lips? 20 A remnant of Israel shall be saved. "Deserve it," saith he, "ay, indeed; and the wonder is that I have not suffered it. How is it that the Father can embrace the prodigal? Can it possibly be conceived that there should be a redemption of men, and those men not redeemed? I go not beyond the limit which this word allows me, nay, I have scarcely come up to the edge of it. The Septuagint (also known as the LXX) is a translation of the Hebrew Bible into the Greek language. They nail him to the tree. He who reads Christ's life, as a mere history, traces the death of Christ to the enmity of the Jews, and to the fickle character of the Roman governor. And here, to the same purport, By his knowledge (the knowledge of him, and faith in him) shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear the sins of many, and so lay a foundation for our justification from sin. And that's why so many marriages are miserable, because the person has married the face but there's nothing behind the face. That would be distinctly true; but the text does not so read. Isaiah 53:8). Christ conquered for us, and through him we are more than conquerors. He didn't know what he had on his hands and he did his best to free Him. Your mistake, Sir, is in your failure to see that Jesus Christ was in no sense whatever only one man. TO MY READERS AND FRIENDS, If you accept the great truths set forth in this Manifesto, please circulate it widely. He did bear those marks after the resurrection. "We are going to Smithfield." There are some of God's elect here, and he will have you. And so Jesus said, "I came not to do My own will but the will of the One who sent Me" ( John 6:38 ). There could be no more explicit declaration that he who is referred to here, did not die as a martyr merely, but that his death had the high purpose of making expiation for the sins of people. But the man who receives the Bible as it is, he says, "Christ died for me, then my eternal life is sure. Isaiah 9:10 Context. 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. There is a stern compression of his face, as if unutterable agony were tearing his heart as if over again Gethsemane were being acted on the cross as if his soul were still saying, "If it be possible let this cross pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt." God must be just, if heaven falls. If I am to be damned for the sake of other people, I demur to it. God's sheriff's officer let him out of "durance vile" because the account had been discharged, and God's great Court of King's Bench sent down the mittimus to let the captive go free. "He shall see his seed." Why, because everyone, who is a true follower or disciple of Christ, has been born by a new birth from him into the position of disciple. God the Father cannot refuse the sacrifice which he has himself appointed. Our Lord shall see his seed on the conquering hand yet. "He shall see his seed." It may be that you are sick: even now your head is aching, your heart is faint; you feel that by-and-by you will die. God knew it. Stop sir! Some are seeking; they have hardly found; they are longing; they have scarcely realized the way of faith. According to the will of God because God loved us. "He has no form nor comeliness." We adore him in the infinite majesty of his unutterable love. "As he is, so are we in this world" that is, we are bent upon the glory of God; filled with love to men, and anxious for their salvation, that God may be glorified thereby. The Septuagint Version . The person so free from personal service, and so truly in our nature, and yet so exalted in person, should also be accepted and ordained of God. [2.] "He shall see his seed." 8In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: who shall declare his generation? 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." And that's all I needed. It was the sovereign degree of heaven which constituted Christ the great substitute for his people. A God bowing his head, and suffering and dying, in the person of manhood, puts such a singular efficacy into every groan and every pang that it needs not that his pangs should be eternal, or that he should die a second death. I notice that the word is in the plural He shall see his seeds," as though some were truly his seed, and yet for a time, at least, differed from the rest. Standing in the Colosseum at Rome, I could not, as I looked around on the ruins of that vast house of sin, but praise God that the church of God existed, though the Colosseum is in ruins. Some years ago, someone, wishing to mock our holy faith, brought out a handbill, which was plastered everywhere "Can you trust in a dead man?" Undoubtedly, it was taken for granted by the offerer, that without shedding blood there was no remission of sin. This last stanza makes the worldwide success of Christ the marvel of all ages. 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." Over head and ears in debt, plunge yourself by a simple act of trusting in Jesus, and you are saved. So as many as saw Him were astonished. The idea is, that he was himself innocent, and that he gave up his soul or life in order to make an expiation for sin - as the innocent animal in sacrifice was offered to God as an acknowledgment of guilt. But the fact that it isn't the beauty of His form that is attractive or draws us to Him means that each of us can identify with Him, because it is that spiritual beauty and the love that just draws us so much that we care not what the form may look like. 12Therefore he shall inherit many, and he shall divide the spoils of the mighty; because his soul was delivered to death: and he was numbered among the transgressors; and he bore the sins of many, and was delivered because of their iniquities. Thus much on our first point. Here is heroism indeed; but God spared not his own Son, his only-begotten Son, but freely delivered him up for us all. The sufferings of Christ are signified by his being "bruised"; ( See Gill on Isaiah 53:5 ), and as it was foretold he should have his heel bruised by the serpent, ( Genesis 3:15 ) , but here it is ascribed to the Lord: he was . He claps his hands right merrily, and smiles while he says, "It will be sharp work to-morrow, I shall breakfast below on fiery tribulations, but afterward I will sup with Christ. The parent's life is in the child. 6All we as sheep have gone astray; every one has gone astray in his way; and the Lord gave him up for our sins. 400.]. 1869 (2.) The Septuagint was translated in the third and second centuries BC in Alexandria, Egypt. Septuagint: Isaiah 3:10 (Tanakh/KJV) Isaiah 3:10 (NET) Isaiah 3:10 (NETS) Isaiah 3:10 (Elpenor English) Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings ().Tell the innocent it will go well with them, for they will be rewarded for what they have done (mall, ). See Psalms 127:5; Psalms 128:6 : Yea, thou shalt see thy childrens children, and peace upon Israel. So one of the highest blessings which could be promised to Abraham was that he would be made the father of many nations Genesis 12:2; Genesis 17:5-6. 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. In accordance with this, the idea is here, that the Messiah would sustain this relation, and that there would be multitudes who would sustain to him the relation of spiritual children. He's with the rich in His death. [1.] And the pleasure of the Lord - That is, that which shall please Yahweh; the work which he desire and appoints. Your league with hell is broken to-night, and your covenant with death is disannulled. They all come into the world, of which he is King, by being born into it. And now, beloved, if by his death we have become his seed (and I think I speak at this time to many who can truly say they hope that it is so with them), then let us consider the fact for a minute. for the transgression of my people was he stricken. Verse Isaiah 7:9 Israel is no stronger than Samaria, its capital city, and Samaria is no stronger than King Pekah. This final stanza gives the explanation for the Servants submissive suffering for sinners and so completes the song. Now we say that Christ was the best person to be a substitute; for just consider what sort of a mediator was needed. The limit of it is just this: He hath died for sinners; whoever in this congregation inwardly and sorrowfully knows himself to be a sinner, Christ died for him; whoever seeks Christ, shall know Christ died for him; for our sense of need of Christ, and our seeking after Christ, are infallible proofs that Christ died for us. Be a debtor to that grace to-night. We hinted that from the dignity of his person the pains he suffered were a good and sufficient equivalent for our own suffering on account of sin. (asham) (54) denotes both sin and the sacrifice which is offered for sin, and is often used in the latter sense in the Scriptures. It pleased the Lord to do this. Because he willingly took the place of sinners and prayed for their forgiveness, he is now exalted to the highest place (12). Childrens children are the crown of old men Proverbs 17:6. Note, [1.] (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. Yet come, and welcome; for God has provided a sin-offering. If he had not completed his work of penalty-suffering, he would have been left in the tomb till now; our preaching would have been in vain, and your faith would have been in vain; ye would have been yet in your sins. Kings shall shut their mouths at Him; For what had not been told them . Go to your own Christ, your living Christ; make him your familiar Friend, the Acquaintance of your solitude, the Companion of your pilgrimage. But please to observe (see if you cannot throw your grappling-hooks upon this), the dignity of his sacred person made him the most proper person for a substitute. Christ hath bought a "multitude that no man can number." What do You say for Yourself?" He could not have wanted to provide it if there was no necessity. If he putteth his life for sin, he shall see (his) seed long enduring, and the will of the Lord shall be (ad)dressed in his hand. But it isn't our looks that really attract people.Now if He were one of those beautiful persons, then it would be more difficult for us to identify with Him. The scripture nowhere says that Christ is his sufferings underwent the wrath of God; but it says here, (1.) When the patriot mother tears her son from her bosom, and cries, "Go, my first-born, to your country's wars; there, go and fight until your country's flag is safe, and the hearths and homes of your native land are secure," there is something in it; for she can look forward to the bloody spectacle of her son's mangled body, and yet love her country more than her own child. "We love him because he first loved us." Our Lord Jesus was in travail of soul for our redemption and salvation, in great pain, but with longing desire to be delivered, and all the pains and throes he underwent were in order to it and hastened it on. because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors ( Isaiah 53:12 ); Two thieves on either, one on either side. The spoil which God divided to Christ he divides (it is the same word), he distributes, among his followers; for, when he led captivity captive, he received gifts for men, that he might give gifts to men; for as he has told us (Acts 20:35) he did himself reckon it more blessed and honourable to give than to receive. So we are the ones responsible for the suffering and the death of Jesus Christ, because He suffered and died for me that He might bring me the forgiveness of my sins. That which he purchased for us by his death, he lives to secure for us by his life. You couldn't stand to look at it. 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. Now when John was in heaven and he saw the scroll in the right hand of Him who sits upon the throne, and he heard the angel proclaim with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to take the scroll and loose the seals?" Now, dear friends, this grace of God is yet further magnified not only in the allowance of the principle of substitution, but in the providing of such a substitute as Christ on Christ's part that he should give up himself, the Prince of Life to die; the King of glory to be despised and rejected of men; the Lord of angels to be a servant of servants; and the Ancient of days to become an infant of a span long. "Hear not all these things they accuse Thee of? This mentioned again (Isaiah 53:12; Isaiah 53:12): He bore the sin of many, who, if they had borne it themselves, would have been sunk by it to the lowest hell. ";s:7:"keyword";s:23:"isaiah 53:10 septuagint";s:5:"links";s:318:"Macneal Hospital Cafeteria,
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