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. "Of all whom thou hast given me, I have lost none." Sin must be punished. So in your ministry, just lift up Jesus, and they even have choruses, "Let's lift Him higher, let's lift Him higher. The Septuagint - the translation of the Old Testament into Greek originally made a few centuries before Jesus - has "startle." . As many were astonished at thee; his visage [or face] was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men ( Isaiah 52:14 ): In the Hebrew this reads more literally, "His face was so marred that He could not be recognized as a man or as a human being. Whatever is undertaken according to God's pleasure shall prosper, Isaiah 46:10; Isaiah 46:10. III. That love which he displayed in his death has touched the mainspring of our being, and moved us with a passion to which we were strangers before; and, because of this, we hate the sins that once were sweet, and turn with all our hearts to the obedience that once was so unpleasant. But things are said about him after death that set him apart from all others." Religion will be promoted and extended through him. That is, with His face covered they began to hit Him. On the contrary, when they see the extent of his sufferings they turn away from him in disgust, like people repelled by the sight of a diseased person (53:1-3).At first those who see the servants intense suffering think that he is being punished by God for some wrong he has done. Hearest thou the cry of his spirit, which is suffering more than his body suffers "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Jesus is not blind; but he does see in his people much more than they ever will see in themselves. That sunshine of God's countenance that has cheered many a dying saint, was withdrawn from Christ; the consciousness of acceptance with God, which has made many a holy man espouse the cross with joy, was not afforded to our Redeemer, and therefore he suffered in thick darkness of mental agony. "The Son with joy looks down, and sees The purchase of his agonies.". The truth is that the original Hebrew language is untranslatable! Chapter 53: 1: . Interceding for the transgressors. An indepth study of Isaiah 53: The Suffering "Righteous Servant" By Serge Lazar. You just sort of cringe at it. Remember that in pecuniary matters you must give a quid pro quo, but that in matters of penal justice no such thing is demanded. Oh, I was excited. Isaiah 53:10 - But the Lord was pleased To crush Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand. O sirs! 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. 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.". May he now be found of them who sought not for him, and he shall have the glory, world without end. He promises to make his soul an offering for sin, consents that the Father shall deliver him up, and undertakes to bear the sin of many, in consideration of which the Father promises to glorify him, not only with the glory he had, as God, before the world was (John 17:5), but with the glories of the Mediator. But, "He opened not His mouth.". But then it follows, if we are thus of a seed, that we ought to be united, and love each other more and more. "It pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath put him to grief." It is Christ's life that is in every true believer "For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God; when Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory." "He was numbered with the transgressors and made intercession for the transgressors" (Isaiah 53:12). No conversation, nothing. "Rivers unknown to song, are not unknown to God." The point is moot, however, because both Yahweh and the Servant made the Servant an offering for sin. and six editions have the word fully and regularly expressed, shelomeynu ; pacificationum nostrarum , "our pacification;" that by which we are brought into a state of peace and favor with God. God forsook His Son when your sin was placed upon Him. It was all, from its Alpha to its Omega, from its divine preface to its solemn finis, marked out, designed, sketched, and planned by the mind of the all-wise, all-knowing God. That's sheer unscriptural idiocy. It's an ambiguous kind of an image, but yet there is sort of a mental image of what the person must look like who has a voice like that. John W. Welch has mentioned some of the reasons that readers differ on the identity of the "righteous servant" in Isaiah 53. With its theater and public-house, it carries on its back two of the greatest instruments of evil yet known. He lives to carry it on. And the pleasure of the Lord - That is, that which shall please Yahweh; the work which he desire and appoints. Righteous men know themselves to be sinners: sinners believe themselves to be righteous men. 15 votes, 19 comments. We must also keep in view the contrast. 'If he shall lay down his life for sin.' The Septuagint renders it in the plural, 'If you shall . While the world stands Christ will have a church in it, which he himself will be the life of. From the parent that life has been received. They claim that in Isaiah 7:14 the word "Almah" is translated as the Greek "parthenos" which they claim means virgin. For He was wounded for our transgressions. And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand; the work of man's redemption, put into the hands of Christ, which he undertook to accomplish; which was with him and before him, when he came into this world, and was his meat and drink to do; this he never left till he had finished it; so that it succeeded and prospered with him: and this may well be called "the pleasure of the Lord"; it was the good pleasure of his will; it was what he purposed and resolved; what his heart was set upon, and was well pleasing to him, as effected by his Son. We are his seed. ". Masoretic Text. There are some of God's elect here, and he will have you. 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. The death-knell of the penalty rings in the dying words of the Saviour, "It is finished." This was the promise made to Abraham (who herein was a type of Christ), that he should be the father of many nations and so be the heir of the world,Romans 4:13; Romans 4:17. And so that we might see the relationship with 53, we will begin our study of chapter 53 with verse Isaiah 52:13 of 52. The second effect of Christ's death is, "He shall prolong his days." (4.) He would also prolong His days by resurrecting Him (cf. 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 ). So marred that you could not be recognized as a man, as a human being.". 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. Take him to the fire and burn the filth! The Church of England was asleep, too; and everywhere it seemed as if there was a kind of orthodox heterodoxy that did not believe anything in particular, and did not hold that there was a doctrine worth anybody's living for or dying for, but that all religious teaching should be like a nose of wax, that you might shape whichever way you liked. Then shall he see his seed! Evidently the death of Christ was fruitful of a seed for him. "Christ Jesus, the Son of God, shall stand in man's place, and he shall be offered upon Mount Calvary instead of man. God longed to save; but, if such a word may be allowed, Justice tied his hands. Shall prosper - (See the notes at Isaiah 52:13, where the same word occurs). Why, then, are not all saved? Well, first of all, THE DEATH OF CHRIST AS PRODUCED A POSTERITY. . I am not yet an old man, as some suppose from the many years of my ministry, but I am often looking forward to that blessed morning, when all the sacred seed shall meet around the throne. 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. On the way, that patriarch speaks not one solitary word to his son. He doesn't even look like a human being. There are multitudes of religious people, very religious people; but they are as dead as door-nails. 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.". Christ died because he was an offering for sin. Have you ever looked at something that was so shocking you couldn't look; you turned your face? (Isaiah 53:10-12) Hebrew translation. and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? Complete it is, dear brethren, not only in itself, but, as I said, in its effects; that is to say, that there is now complete pardon for every soul which believeth in Christ. I read the epistles of Paul and I think of him as a giant. And I'll go into an area to speak and all they've heard is my voice. And if sin deserve not to be punished, what is Tophet but injustice on a monstrous scale? 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. But hark! Beloved, it is not only true that God did design and did permit with willingness the death of Christ; it is moreover, true that the unutterable agonies that clothed the death of the Saviour with superhuman terror, were the effect of the Father's bruising of Christ in very act and deed. 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. Why doth the Saviour suffer so? He overlooks both Pilate and Herod, and traces it to the heavenly Father, the first Person in the Divine Trinity. It was a great commendation of his sufferings, and redounded very much to his honour, that in his sufferings he made intercession for the transgressors, for those that reviled and crucified him; for he prayed, Father, forgive them, thereby showing, not only that he forgave them, but that he was now doing that upon which their forgiveness, and the forgiveness of all other transgressors, were to be founded. And God cries out. The structure of Isaiah also argues for its unity. Mother, you know yourself what a pleasure it has been for you to look at your daughter, and to see her grow up. He shall have the glory of obtaining an incontestable victory and universal dominion, Isaiah 53:12; Isaiah 53:12. (3.) Hark! "He was numbered with the transgressors.". 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. He shall prolong his days. 1. But he who reads the Bible with the eye of faith, desiring to discover its hidden secrets, sees something more in the Saviour's death than Roman cruelty, or Jewish malice: he sees the solemn decree of God fulfilled by men, who were the ignorant, but guilty instruments of its accomplishment. Right? 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. I must, if I would escape, and would procure a substitute, find a man who is not drawn, and who is therefore exempt. Missionaries attempt to prove that "Almah" means a "virgin" by referring to an ancient Greek translation of the Bible, called the Septuagint, which was carried out by 70 rabbis approximately 165 years before Jesus. Note, [1.] We are all equally responsible for His death. Oh! And being humbled, He came as a servant" ( Philippians 2:6-8 ). That done, the victim being selected, the offerer put his hand upon the sin-offering and this indeed was the essence of the whole transaction putting his hand on the victim, he confessed his sin, and a transferrence took place, in type at least, from the offender to the victim. The prey shall not be taken from the mighty; the lawful captive shall be delivered. Being separated from God. The name Septuagint comes from the Latin word for "seventy." The tradition is that 70 (or 72) Jewish scholars were the translators behind the Septuagint. Our Lord's true people are like him, or they could not be styled "his seed." It would be the deliberate act of Yahweh. I. 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