How true this was of the Lord Jesus it is not necessary here to pause to show. The meaning is, that he was under such a weight of sorrows on account of our sins, that he was, as it were, crushed to the earth. The same idea occurs in the Syriac translation. The Septuagint renders it, Memalakista – He was rendered languid, or feeble. Applied to mind, it means to break down or crush by calamities and trials and by the use of the word here, no doubt, the most severe inward and outward sufferings are designated. He was bruised – The word used here ( daka’) means properly to be broken to pieces, to be bruised, to be crushed Job 6:9 Psa 72:4. All along the prophet keeps up the idea that it was not on account of any sin of which he was guilty that he thus suffered, but it was for the sins of others – an idea which is everywhere exhibited in the New Testament. Here the sense is, that the reason why he thus suffered was, that we were transgressors. It is strikingly parallel to the passage in Rom 4:25 : Who was delivered for ( dia) our offences. The preposition for ( min) here answers to the Greek dia, on account of, and denotes the cause for which he suffered and means, even according to Gesenius (Lex.), here, the ground or motive on account of, or because of which anything is done. But it is probable that it is rather to be regarded as derived from chalal, to pierce, or to wound.įor our transgressions – The prophet here places himself among the people for whom the Messiah suffered these things, and says that he was not suffering for his own sins, but on account of theirs. The word tormented, in the margin, was added by our translators because the Hebrew word might be regarded as derived from chul, to writhe, to be tormented, to be pained – a word not unfrequently applied to the pains of parturition. Applied to the actual sufferings of the Messiah, it refers undoubtedly to the piercing of his hands, his feet, and his side. The obvious idea would be that there would be some act of piercing, some penetrating wound that would endanger or take life. There is probably the idea of painful piercing, and it refers to some infliction of positive wounds on the body, and not to mere mental sorrows, or to general humiliation. The word rendered wounded ( mecholal), is a Pual participle, from chalal, to bore through, to perforate, to pierce hence, to wound 1Sa 31:3 1Ch 10:3 Eze 28:9. The Syriac renders it in a remarkable manner, He is slain on account of our sins, thus showing that it was a common belief that the Messiah would be violently put to death. And when we obey his words, our sins shall be remitted to us. And in his doctrine, peace shall be multiplied to us. And he shall build the house of the sanctuary which was defiled on account of our sins, and which was delivered on account of our iniquities. The Chaldee has given a singular paraphrase of it, showing how confused was the view of the whole passage in the mind of that interpreter. Junius and Tremellius, He was affected with grief. Jerome and the Septuagint also render this, He was wounded. Isa 40:2).įuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Collegesīut he was wounded – Margin, Tormented. What the verse teaches is that the people could not be healed by their own suffering it was only through the Servant’s voluntary submission to the divine chastisement ( Isa 53:7), and his bearing it in an extraordinary degree, that an atonement was effected between Jehovah and Israel (see on ch. That the people themselves had suffered for their sins is not excluded, but is apparently implied in the last words (“we are healed”), and is expressly said in other parts of the book (ch. Cheyne’s assertion that the notion of punishment is the primary one in this word is not borne out by O.T. “Chastisement” is pain inflicted for moral ends and with remedial intent ( Pro 3:11 f. the chastisement needful to procure peace or well-being for us. Isa 51:9) and “crushed” ( Job 6:9) are probably metaphors expressing the fatal ravages of leprosy. But he was pierced because of our rebellions,
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