Isaiah 53

When he was on earth he lay in the manger, now he sits in the throne; then he was hated and scorned of men, now he is adored of angels; then his name was reproached, now God has given him a name above every name (Philippians 2:9). Then he came in the form of a servant, and as a…

He knew no sin, yet he was made sin (2 Corinthians 5:21). He was like a sinner, he had all sin laid upon him, but no sin lived in him (Isaiah 53:12). He was numbered among transgressors.

Question. I am a sinner; who does Christ intercede for? Response. (Isaiah 53:12) He made intercession for the transgressors. Did Christ open his sides for you, and will he not open his mouth to plead for you?

Quest. Why did Christ suffer? Resp. Surely not for any desert of his own, (Daniel 9:26) The Messiah shall be cut off, but not for himself; it was for us, (Isaiah 53:6) Unus peccat alius plectitor; He suffered that he might satisfy God's justice for us. We by our sins had infinit…

They know their duty yet do it not? Response 1. The not obeying of God is for want of faith (Isaiah 53:1). Quis credidit? Who has believed our report?

1. Christ will come in splendor and great glory. His first coming in the flesh was obscure (Isaiah 53:2). He was like a prince in disguise; but his second coming will be illustrious, he shall come in the glory of his Father, with the holy angels (Mark 8:38).

O give credence to the Word — it is breathed from God's own mouth. Hence arises all the profaneness of men: they do not believe Scripture (Isaiah 53:1): "Who has believed our report?" Did you believe the glorious rewards the Scripture speaks of, would you not give diligence to m…

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. Isaiah 53:8. Who shall declare his generation? Christ is a Son to the Father, yet so, as he is of the same nature with the Father, having all the incommunicable properties of the Godhead belonging to him:…

(2 Corinthians 5:21) He was made sin for us. He who was among the glorious persons of the Trinity, was numbered among transgressors (Isaiah 53:12). Not that he had sin, but he was like a sinner, having our sins imputed to him.

What if sin be red as scarlet, is not Christ's blood of a deeper color, and can wash away sin? If Satan strikes us with his darts of temptation, here is a precious balm comes out of Christ's wounds to heal us (Isaiah 53:5). What, though we feed upon the bread of affliction, as l…

It was the will of his Father that he should die for our sins, and he endured the Cross (Hebrews 12:2). It was a painful, shameful, cursed death; he suffered the very pains of Hell equivalently, yet he willingly submitted (Isaiah 53:7). He opened not his mouth, he opened his sid…

I shall in this brief and hasty discourse, add only one consideration more about the death of Christ to confirm the truth pleaded for. And that is that he is said in dying for sinners, to bear their sins (Isaiah 53:11), he shall bear their iniquities, v. 12, he bare the sins of…

As, 1. That he offered himself a sacrifice to God, to make atonement for our sins, and that in his death and sufferings (Isaiah 53:10): "When you shall make his soul an offering for sin" (John 1:29): "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world" (Ephesians 5:2):…

So that in Christ we are not only to consider his personal fitness to be a Redeemer, and to satisfy justice fully for us, and that he was made man, and took our nature upon him, and was completely furnished with all these graces in his human nature, whereby he was carried throug…

With these Christ's soul was filled when, as the text says, 'he was heard in what he feared' and 'his soul was heavy to death' and 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' And so in Isaiah 53: 'It pleased God to bruise and wound him.' Now then, to conform us to his image, we…

Again, whereas he is said to be without genealogy, it is of somewhat a difficult application; for the genealogy of Christ was [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], or [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] the roll of his pedigree, is declared by two of the Evangelists, the one driving of it up to…

But the word is used also to express other springings; as of water from a fountain, or a branch from the stock. And so it is said of our Lord Jesus, that he should grow up as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground (Isaiah 53:2). A rod out of the stem, and a branch out…

And the testification of his own will, grace and love in the susception of this office, is a principal motive to that faith and trust which the Church places in him, as the Mediator between God and them. Upon this his voluntary undertaking does the Soul of God rest in him, and h…

[⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], Syr.[⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩] By the blood of his own Soul or Life. He made his soul an offering for sin (Isaiah 53:3). Blood is the life of the Sacrifice.

And this he did in his suffering. Moreover, where-ever in the Old Testament [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩] is translated by [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩] in the LXX, as Numbers 14:33, Isaiah 53:12, or by [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩] with reference to sin, it constantly signifies to be…

And by his death it is, as he was the Son of God, that we are redeemed. Herein he made his soul an offering for sin (Isaiah 53:10). Therefore this expression of the blood of Christ, in order to our Redemption, or the expiation of sin, is comprehensive of all that he did and suff…

It belongs to a Forerunner to carry tidings, and to declare what is the success that has been obtained in the affair which he gives an account of. The Lord Christ entering into Heaven makes an open declaration, that he has led captivity captive, spoiled principalities and powers…

4. The whole efficacy of his Sacrifice is ascribed to every essential part of the human nature of Christ, in that which is either acted, or suffered therein. To his Soul (Isaiah 53); his blood (chap. 9:14); his Body (ver. 10); his Flesh, as in this place. For these things were n…

1. He undertook as the Surety of the Covenant to answer for all the sins of those who are to be, and are made partakers of the benefits of it. That is, to undergo the punishment due to their sins; to make atonement for them, by offering himself a propitiatory sacrifice for their…

Nor was the Body of Christ alone, offered in sacrifice to God. He made his soul an offering for sin (Isaiah 53:10), which was typified by the life that was in the blood of the sacrifice. Therefore it is said, that he offered himself to God (Hebrews 9:14; Ephesians 5:2), that is,…

The laws of this kingdom are the word of God in the books of the old and new testament. Therefore it is called the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 13), the Gospel of the kingdom (Mark 1:13), the rod of his mouth (Isaiah 11:4), the arm of God (Isaiah 53:1). As a king by his laws bring…

He is a Father in respect of grace, because we are regenerate by him, and accepted to be his sons by adoption through the merit of Christ. And in this respect the second person as well as the first is called a Father, and said to have an offspring or seed and children (Isaiah 9:…

Trajan the Emperor did rend off a piece of his own robe to wrap his soldiers wounds. Christ did more, he made a medicine of his body and blood to heal us, Isaiah 53. 5. By his stripes you are healed. Here was a pattern of Charity without a parallel.

But now among these Ministers and Officers of the Church, the Prophets and Apostles are styled so by way of eminency. Yes, yet further, Christ, because of his office of Mediator, which is the highest office, and proper to the Head of the Church, is called God's Servant; as (Isai…

Behold a ruinous building upon a rotten foundation — for faith contains a knowledge of things to be believed, and knowledge is of the nature of faith, and nothing is believed that is not known. Isaiah 53:11: The knowledge of my righteous servant shall justify many. John 17:3: Th…

If we be made righteous by Christ his righteousness truly, then Christ is a sinner truly by our sins: but Christ is not indeed a sinner by our sins. Answer: We may with reverence to his majesty in good manner say, that Christ was a sinner, and that truly: not by any infusion of…

Never did any suffer more and greater abuses from men than Christ did, and never did any carry it more peaceably and forgivingly. Isaiah 53:7: 'He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter.' This pattern the Apostle…

The laws of this kingdom, is the word of God, in the books of the Old and New Testament. Therefore it is called the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 13), the Gospel of the kingdom (Mark 1:13), the rod of his mouth (Isaiah 11:4), the arm of God (Isaiah 53:1). As a king by his laws brin…

The comparatively little saving Good there is in the World, as the Fruit of Christ's Redemption, before that Time, is as it were granted by Way of Anticipation; as we anticipate something of the Sun's Light by Reflection before the Day-Time, the proper Time of the Sun's Rule; an…

God therefore foretells that the Liberator from the seed of the woman will taste death for sin and for sinners (Hebrews 2:9). And since Satan was intent on pursuing and exercising the victory he had recently won over the human race to bring about the eternal destruction of all,…

Isaiah 53:1 Who has believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? We hope it shall not be needful to insist in opening the scope of this chapter, or in clearing to you of whom the prophet means, and is speaking: It was once questioned by the Eunuch, Acts 8:32…

Isaiah 53:1. Who has believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? We have spoken somewhat these days past, to sundry doctrines from this part of the verse, and particularly of the sad complaint which Isaiah has in his own name, and in the name of all the min…

Isaiah 53:1. Who has believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? If we would soberly consider the frame of the most part of men and women that live under the Gospel, it would be hard to know whether it were more strange that so few should receive the report…

Isaiah 53:1. Who has believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? We have spoken at several occasions to this first part of the verse, and before we leave it, there is one use several times hinted at already, to which there is good ground to speak, it being…

Isaiah 53:1 — And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? There are many mistakes in the way of religion, with which the most part are possessed, and among the rest there is one, that generally the hearers of the Gospel think it so easy to believe, that there is no difficulty i…

Isaiah 53:1—And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? The way of the grace of God is a very difficult subject to be thought on or spoken of suitably and as it becomes, grace having a sovereign and unsearchable channel of its own wherein it runs; yet no doubt it is very useful…

Isaiah 53:1 — And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? Ministers have not done with their work when they have preached, and people have not done with their work when they have heard: that which is of greatest concern follows, which either has, in the want of it, influence on…

Isaiah 53:1 — And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? It's much to walk evenly and steadfastly under the pure doctrine of grace, and neither from it to take occasion to give way to looseness and carnal liberty, nor to become faint and discouraged, and fearful at the way of…

ISAIAH 53:2, 3. Verse 2. For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he has no form nor comeliness: and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Isaiah 53:2, 3. Verse 2. For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he has no form nor comeliness: and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Isaiah 53:4-5 Verse 4. Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Isaiah 53:1. Who has believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? The Prophet Isaiah is very solicitous about the fruit of his preaching, when he has preached concerning Christ; as indeed it is not enough for ministers to preach, and for people to hear, exce…

Isaiah 53:4-5 Verse 4. Surely he has born our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Isaiah 53:4-5. Verse 4. Surely he has born our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. Verse 5. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and w…

Isaiah 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed. It's hard to tell whether the subject of this verse, and almost of this whole chapter, be more sad or more sw…