Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 53:4
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4. Surely . . . our griefs —literally, " But yet He hath taken (or borne ) our sicknesses, " that is, they who despised Him because of His human infirmities ought rather to have esteemed Him on account of them; for thereby "Himself took OUR infirmities " (bodily diseases). So :- quotes it. In the Hebrew for "borne," or took, there is probably the double notion, He took on Himself vicariously (so Isaiah 53:5 ; Isaiah 53:6 ; Isaiah 53:8 ; Isaiah 53:12 ), and so He took away; His perfect humanity whereby He was bodily afflicted for us, and in all our afflictions ( Isaiah 63:9 ; Hebrews 4:15 ) was the ground on which He cured the sick; so that Matthew's quotation is not a mere accommodation. See Note 42 of ARCHBISHOP MAGEE, Atonement. The Hebrew there may mean to overwhelm with darkness; Messiah's time of darkness was temporary ( Hebrews 4:15- : ), answering to the bruising of His heel; Satan's is to be eternal, answering to the bruising of his head (compare Isaiah 50:10 ). carried . . . sorrows —The notion of substitution strictly. "Carried," namely, as a burden. "Sorrows," that is, pains of the mind; as "griefs" refer to pains of the body ( Psalms 32:10 ; Psalms 38:17 ). Psalms 38:17- : might seem to oppose this: "And bare our sicknesses. " But he uses "sicknesses" figuratively for sins, the cause of them. Christ took on Himself all man's "infirmities;" so as to remove them; the bodily by direct miracle, grounded on His participation in human infirmities; those of the soul by His vicarious suffering, which did away with the source of both. Sin and sickness are ethically connected as cause and effect ( Isaiah 33:24 ; Psalms 103:3 ; Matthew 9:2 ; John 5:14 ; James 5:15 ). we did esteem him stricken —judicially [LOWTH], namely, for His sins; whereas it was for ours. "We thought Him to be a leper" [JEROME, Vulgate ], leprosy being the direct divine judgment for guilt ( Leviticus 13:1-59 ; Numbers 12:10 ; Numbers 12:15 ; 2 Chronicles 26:18-21 ). smitten —by divine judgments. afflicted —for His sins; this was the pointin which they so erred ( Luke 23:34 ; Acts 3:17 ; 1 Corinthians 2:8 ). He was, it is true, "afflicted," but not for His sins. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-5" class="com-number"
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