Christ's satisfaction in his people.
Isai. liii. 11. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall
be satisfied.
THE prospect of saving a ruined world was a strong inducement with our Lord to undertake the office of mediating between God and them, and afforded him rich consolation under the heavy trials he was called to endure in the execution of that office. And, now that his expectations are in a measure realized, he feels an inexpressible complacency in a retrospect upon all that he had done and suffered for our sake. It had been declared in the foregoing verse, that, after making his soul an offering for sin, he should see a seed, who should be, as it were, his spiritual off- spring. In the words before us, the same promise is repeated, though with a remarkable variation in the terms ; and it is foretold that, in the accomplishment of this promise, he should feel the most abundant satisfaction.
The promise of a successful issue to his undertaking having been already considered, we shall wave every thing relating to that, and make some remarks upon the representation which is here given of believers, and the satisfaction which our blessed Lord takes in them in that particular view.
I. The representation here given of believers —
Of all the numberless descriptions given of believers in the Holy Scriptures, there is not any one so inte- resting as that before us. Similar ideas indeed are suggested in many passages, where mankind are spoken of as begotten of God, and as sons and