and as a root out ofa dry ground 4 3 he hath |
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no form nor comelineſs e : and when we ſhal ſee him, there is no beauty that we ſhould defire him f.
d And the reaſon or cccafion why the Jews will {5 :encrally rejet their Meſſiah, 1s becauſe he ſhall not come into the World with ſecular pomp, and power, like an carthly Movarch, as they carnal ly and groundlefly imagined but he (hal grow up (or ſpring up, Heb. 4« ſcend, to wit, out of the ground, -a5 it follows, brougnt forth, and brought up ) befor? him, ( before the unbelieving Jews' of whom he ipake, v. x, and that in the ſingular number, as here, who were
' witneſſes of his mean original; and tierefore deſpiſed him, accor.
Ging. to Chriſt's obſervation, F2hn 4. 14. or,as others, according to his face, or outward appearatice, as he was man 3 whereby he ſufficient ly irmaplies that he had another, a far higher, and a Divine Nature in him, ) as a tender plant ( or, as this very wordis tranſlated, Fzep, I7, 4- a young twig, which"1s a ſmall and inconfiderable thing ) and as a reos ( as Chriſt is called, Rom. 15« 12: andelfewhere : or as a branch, the rot being put Metomynically for the branch growing out of the root, as if is apparenily uſcd, where Chriſt is called the root of Feſs:, and of David. Iſa. 11. 10; Rev, 5. $5 and in other places, as Chr. 22. 10.) out of 4 dry ground, out of a mean and barren ſoi!, whoſe produQtions are generally poor and contemptible; either 1, Out ofthe Womb of a Virgin; but that was no ground of con- tempt: Or 2, Ofthe Jewiſh Nation, which was then poor, and deſ- piſedz andenſlaved : Or 3. Out of the poor, and decayed, and con- tcmptible Family, . ſuch as the Royal Family of David was at that time, e His bodily preſence and condition in the World ſhall be mean and contemptible, f When we ſhall look upon him, expe@- ing to find incompareable Beauty and Majeſty in his Countenance, and Carriage, and Condition, we ſhall be altogether diſapointed, and ſhal meet with nothing amiable or defircable in him. This the Prophet ſpeaketh in the perſon of the carnal and unbelieving Jews, we, 2. e. our People, the ſewiſh Nation; |
3 He is deſpiſed and rejected of men g,a man of ſor-
! rows b6, and acquainted with grief 5 : and || + we pI aan hid as it were owr faces from him & ; he was de- his face {piſed, and we eſteemed him not /. from us.
g Accounted as the (cum of Mankind, as one unworthy of the THeb, as 4 company and converſition of all men. þ Wroſe whole Life was Þiding of filled with, and in a manner made up of an uninterrupted ſucceffion faces from of Sorrows and Sufferings. 3 Who had conſtant Experience of and 72:n. or, familiar converſe with grievous afflitions : for knowledge is oft taken f19M #s, praQtically, or for Experience, as Gen. 3, $5. 2 Cor. 5. 21, and elſewhere, & We ſcorned and loathed to look upon him Or, as others, he hidas is were his face from us, as one afhamed to ſhew his Face, or to be ſeen by any Men, as perſons conſcious to themſelves of any great deformity do commonly ſhun the ſizht ot men, as Lepers did, Lev. 13, 45. 4 Here are divers words expreffing the ſame thing, to fignifie both the utmoſt degree of contempt, and how ſtrange and wonderful a thing it was, that ſo excellent a perſon ſhould be ſo deſpiſed.
4 Surely * he hath born our griefs, and carried our *Mat. 8. ſorrews m2 yet we did eſteem him ſtricken, ſmirten of 27! God and afflicted ».
m And whereas it may ſeem an unreaſonable and incredible thing, that ſo excellent and glorious,and ſo innocent and juſt a perſon ſhouid meet with this uſage, it muſt be known that his griefs and miſeries were not laid upon him for his own ſake, but wholly and ſolely for the ſake of ſinful men, in whoſe ſtead he ſtood, and for whoſe fins he ſuffered, as it here follows. n= Yet our people, the lew:, were ſo far from giving him the Glory and Praiſe of ſuch a prodigious con= deſcenſion ane compaſſion, that they made a moſt perverſe conftru&i- on of it, and ſo great was their prejudice againſt hiw, that they be. lieved that he was thus diſgraced and puniſhed, and at laſt Put to
death by the juſt j»dgment ofof God, for his Blaſphemy and oth Tanitold Wickcdnefles. PNER : 7
5 Buto he was [| * wounded p for our tranſprefſi- ons q, he was bruiſed for our iniquities; the chaſtiſe- ment of our peace r was upon hims, andwith his * f {tripes we are healed z.
0 But this was 2 moſt talſe and unrighteous Sentence. word comprehends all his pains, and puniſhments, and his Death a- +tHeb. mong and 2vove thereſt. q Not by them, which isexpreſled by ano- bruiſe ther particle, not by the wickedneſs of the Jews. but for or becauſe | of them, as this particle commonly fignifies, for the guilt of their fins, which he had voluntarily craken upon himſelf, and for the Expia- tion of their fins, whieh was hereby parchaſed and procured of God for Men. Which Interpretation is confirmed, 1. By the Oppoſition of this truth to the falſe opinion mentioned in the foregoing clauſe that he was ſmizt2n of God for the guilt of his own fins. 2. By the following clauſe, as we ſhal ſees By the nature of the thing this betng evident from Scriptures both from the Old and New Telt2- ment, that Chriſt was not to ſuffer for his own, but for other mens Sins. Sce Dan: 9. 24, 26. r Thoſe puniſtments by which oue Peace, 2. e, our reconcilation to God, and Salvation, or Happineſs, was to be purchaſed, s Was laid upon him by God's Juſtice with his own conſent, # By his ſufferings we are ſaved from our fins and from the dreadful effes thereof A
6 All we # like ſheep « have gone aſtray x : we have turned every one to his own way y, and the LORD Þ bath laid = on him the 111QUitY a of us fHeb. hath
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