The Pulpit Commentary — Isaiah — Volume 2 — Section 286

utterly devoid of moisture. Such plants The translation of the Authorized Version have roots that strike clcep, aud draw their may therefore be retained. We hid as it nourishment from o. hidden source. Ho hath were our faoes from him; literaily, and there no form nor comelineBB; rather, he had no was as it weTe the hiding of the face frrrm form nor majllllty. It is eearcely the pro- him. Some suppose the hiding of God's phet's intention to describe the personal face to be intended; bnt the context, which oppearance of our Lord. What he means describes the treatment of the Servant hy is that " the Servant" would ho.ve no splen- hie fellow-men, makes the meaning given i11 did surroundings, no regal pomp nor splen- onr version far preferable. J\Ien turned dour-nothing about him to 1,ttract men's their faces from him when they met him, tyee, or make them think him anything would not see him, would not recognize him extr,,ordinaxy. It is impossible to suppose (comp. Job xix.13--17; xxx. 10). Despised. that there was n,,t in hie appearance some- A repetition very characteristic of Isaiah thing of winning grace and quiet majesty. (see eh. i. 7; iii.12; iv. 3; vi. 11; :xiv. 2!:; But it wns of a kind that was not adapted xv. 8; xvi i. 12, 13, etc.). to draw the gaze of the mullitude. And Ver. 4.-Surely he hath bome our griefs; when we shall see him. Some connect or, surely they were our grie/8 which he bore. this clause wilh the preceding, and translate, The pronouns are emphatic. Ha,ing set •• He hnth no form nor comeliness, that we forth at length the fact of the Servant's hu- should regard him; no beauty, that we miliation (vera. 2, 3), the proph,-t hastens to should desire him" (Lowtl1, Vitringa, Ge- declare the reason of it. Twelve times over senius, Ewald, Knobel, Henderson, Urwick. within the space of nine verses be asserts, But Stier, Delitzsch, Kay, and Mr. Cheyne with the mo&t emphatic reiteration, thnt prefer the construction found in the A utho- all the Servant's sufferings were vicarious, rized Version). No beauty; literally, no borne for man, to save him from tile cotse- sightliness; i.e. nothing to attract the eye quences of his sins, to enable him to escape or arrest it. The spiritual beauties of holy punishment. The doctrine thus taught in and sweet expression and majestic calm the Old Testament is set forth with equal could only have been spiritually discerned. distinctness in the New (Matt. x:x. 28; John Ver. 3.-Ke is despised; rather, was de- xi. 50-52; Rom. iii. 25; v. ti-8 ; viii. 3; spised (comp. eh. xlix. 7 and Ps. xxii. 6). 2 Cor. v. 18-21; viii. 9; Gal. iii. 13; Eph. Men's contempt was shown, partly in the i. 7; 1 Pet. ii. 24, etc.), and forms the hope, little attention which they paid to his teach- the trust, and the consolation of Christians. ing, partly in their treatment of him on the And carried our sorrows. The application night and day before the Crucifixion (Matt. which St. Matthew makes of this passage xxv. 67, 68; xxvi. 29-31; lllark xiv. 65; to our Lord's miracles of healing (viii. 17) xv. 18, 19, etc.). Rejected of men; rather, is certainly not the primary sense of the perhaps,forsaken of men-" one from whom wol'ds, but may be rego.rded as o. secondary men held themselves aloof" (Cheyne); application of them. Christ's suffering; comp. Job xix. 14. Our Lord had at no were the remedy for l\ll the ills that flesh time more than a "little flock" attached to is heir to. Yet we did esteem him stricken, him. Of these, after a time, "many went smitten of God. They who saw Obrist back, and walked no more with him" (John suffer, instead of understandmg that he was vi. 66). Some, who believed on him, would bearing the sins of others in a mediatorial only come to him by night (Johu iii. 2). capacity, imagined that he was sulferiog at All the " rulers" and greu t men held aioof Go,l's h1mds for his own sin~. Hence they from him (John vii. 48). At the end, even scoffed nt him and reviled him, even in his his apostles "forsook him, aud fled" (Matt. greatest agonies (Matt. :xxvii. 3D-41). 'fo x.xvi. 56). A Man of sorrows. Tho word one only, aud him not one of God's people, translated "sorrows" means also pains of was it given to see the eoutrnry, and to any kind. But the beautiful rendering of declo.re aloud, nt the moment of the death, our version may well •!and, since there are "Certainly this was I\ righteous l\lan" (Luke many places where the word used certainly xxiii. 47). means "sorrow'' and nothing else (see Ver. 5.-But he was wounded for our Exod. iii. 7; 2 Chl'on. vi. 29; Ps. xxxii. 10; transgressions. This verso contains four xxxviii. 17; Eccles. i. 18; Jer. xxx. 15; asseverations of the great truth thut all xlv. 3; Lam. i. 12, 18, eto.). AQuila well Cln·ist'e sufferings were for us, and consti- translates, 11.•Bpa aA'}'11B& • .,.. The" sorrow~" tuted the atonement for our sins. The form of Jesus appe11r on every page of thc:, Gos- is varied, but the truth is one. Christ wus pels. Aoque.inted with grief; literally, with " wounded " or '' pierced " (1) by the thorns; Bickne&8 ; but as reger and regritudo are ap- (2) by the nails; and (3) by the spear of the plied in Latin both to the mind and to the soldier. The wounds inflicted by the nails body, so kl1iili, the word here used, would caused his death. He was bruised; or, seem to be in Hebrew (see Jer. vi. 7; x. 19). crwhed ( comp. oh. iii. 15; xi.x. 10; lvii. 15.  296 TllE BOOK OF 'l.'HE Pll01:'IIE1' IS.A.IA.H. Cort. LUI. 1-12.