He has gone into the region of immortality. author: richard frederick littledale a commentary on the song of songs. he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth ( Isaiah 53:7 ). Our Lord shall see his seed on the conquering hand yet. To bruise him, or his being bruised, was pleasing to Yahweh; that is, it was acceptable to him that he should be crushed by his many sorrows. ], "The Old Testament testifies uniformly that the dead are alive, and in this sense it is no surprise to find the Servant alive after death. He sees you. If you'll just lift up Jesus, He'll draw all men to Him, you see. "Only his bodily resurrection could serve to fulfill such a prediction as this." "Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand." And when we speak of the Saviour of the world, we must always include in that word, if we speak in a large sense, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, for all these three, as one God, do save us from our sins. "Which things the angels desire to look into," said the apostle. Well do I recollect, as a child, how man hours, how many days, I spent looking at the pictures in an old-fashioned "Book of Martyrs," and wondering how the men of God suffered, as they did, so bravely. Some years ago, someone, wishing to mock our holy faith, brought out a handbill, which was plastered everywhere "Can you trust in a dead man?" I recollect how I used to turn to that boy of Brentford, who was first beaten with rods, and afterwards tied to the stake, cheerfully to burn for Christ's sake. Over head and ears in debt, plunge yourself by a simple act of trusting in Jesus, and you are saved. You just sort of cringe at it. But, my brothers, he is not dead. Jesus, as he looks upon them all, can say, "Behold, I make all things new." and consider the unexampled love which shines in Christ's gift of himself. Secondly, that posterity remains. It said, "And they shall look on Him whom they have pierced" ( Zechariah 12:10 ). Interesting prophecies concerning Jesus Christ. Thus Isaiah declares that in the head and the members there shall be immortal life. When men brought bulls and goats as sacrifices for sin they made them offerings, for they had an interest in them, God having put them under the feet of man. Beloved, we become, I say again, the followers of Christ by being made partakers of his life, and unless his life be in us, we may say what we will about Christ, and profess what we like about following him; but we are not in the secret. In his whole life he was numbered among the transgressors; for he was called and accounted a sabbath-breaker, a drunkard, and a friend to publicans and sinners. Some are seeking; they have hardly found; they are longing; they have scarcely realized the way of faith. Evidently the death of Christ was fruitful of a seed for him. This we must inherit, as a son follows his father's business. The Influence Of Post-Biblical Hebrew And Aramaic On The Translator Of Septuagint Isaiah (The Library Of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies) by Seulgi L. Byun, 9780567672384, available at LibroWorld.com. Isaiah 53:11. It is Christ's life that is in every true believer "For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God; when Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory." Look ye there, and see the place where his only Son hung dead upon the cross, the bleeding victim of awakened justice! You have come in to the place where prayer is wont to be made, burdened and troubled, and you seek relief; let the thought that your Lord is a living Friend ease you of your burden. It was my sin that brought Him that suffering and that beating and that shame and that reproach. Do not doubt this message: God has sent it to you. Why through his death principally? God the Father cannot refuse the sacrifice which he has himself appointed. My, what this man has given to us of his great depth of understanding and background. A true husband and a true spouse are always lovers: they are always linked together by strong ties of affection; and it is so with that model husband, the Lord Christ, and his perfect church above. Don't You know that I have power to free Thee, the power to put Thee to death?" The church must perpetually receive fresh light and life from above, or else it would die; but still stands the promise, "He shall see his seed." And I believe that it will be a part of his heaven for him to look upon his redeemed. "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble; therefore will we not fear, though the earth be removed and the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea.". There are in the world many theories of atonement; but I can not see any atonement in any one, except in this doctrine of substitution. Septuagint: Isaiah 53:10d (Tanakh) Table Isaiah 53:10d (NET) Isaiah 53:10d (NETS) Isaiah 53:11a (Elpenor English) and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand ().and the Lord's purpose will be accomplished through him (y, ).And the Lord wishes to take away ()the Lord also is pleased to take away () from Assuredly this is not language which can be used of any martyr. The Hebrew word extolled is the word lifted up. It was also for the most part the Old Testament of . In him is light, and the light is the life of men. The word here is the infinitive of Piel. But it isn't our looks that really attract people.Now if He were one of those beautiful persons, then it would be more difficult for us to identify with Him. can ye tell the greatness of that love, which made the everlasting God not only put his Son upon the altar, but actually do the deed, and thrust the sacrificial knife into his Son's heart? He is the right person. The days are evil, but the Lord is good. 8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. They look upon Him as an unloving, severe Being, who had no love to the human race, and could only be made loving by the death and agonies of our Saviour. "I must be just," said God; "that is a necessity of my nature. Amen. If you make a sin offering , our soul will see long-lived offspring, and the Lord is willing to remove him from the . And after all, though men call this a limited atonement, it is as effectual as their own fallacious and rotten redemptions can pretend to be. He shall see the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied ( Isaiah 53:10-11 ): That is, He travailed in order that you might be born again. In this he acteth justly, for the crime and sin of the Saviour's death must lay at the door of manhood. God's living children may not seem to be quite so handsome, nor so charmingly arrayed as you are, and in their own esteem they may not be worthy to consort with you; but there is a solemn difference between the living child and the dead child, however you may try to conceal it. Our second head must explain the first, or otherwise it is an insolvable mystery how God should bruise his Son, who was perfect innocence, while poor fallible confessors and martyrs have had no such bruising from him in the time of their trial. So Christ became the sin offering for us. The Word of God is divinely inspired; it's inerrant. I do not know you, but it may be you have trodden the pavements, or you have gone further than that, and added drunkenness to shame; you have gone to the lowest vice, perhaps to robbery, who knoweth what manner of person may step into this place? It is to run a theater and a public-house, and include atheists in its membership. Or, rather, he poured it out as a drink-offering, to make his sacrifice complete, poured it out as wine, that his blood might be drink indeed, as his flesh is meat indeed to all believers. He loves his people no less, and he could not love them any more, than when he died for them, and so for ever "he shall see his seed." The first volume contains an important intro-33-Isa-NETS-4.qxd 11/10/2009 10:40 PM Page 824 With them length of days and a numerous posterity were regarded as the highest favors, and usually as the clearest proofs of the divine love. "When we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him.". It is often rendered trespass-offering Leviticus 5:19; Leviticus 7:5; Leviticus 14:21; Leviticus 19:21; 1 Samuel 6:3, 1 Samuel 6:8, 1 Samuel 6:17). His soul - The word rendered here soul ( nephesh) means properly breath, spirit, the life, the vital principle Genesis 1:20-30; Genesis 9:4; Leviticus 17:11; Deuteronomy 12:23. Now this is why it is so ridiculous to try to hold the Jews responsible for the death of Jesus Christ and to blame them and to persecute them as has been the history of the church; persecute them for the death of Jesus Christ. If God's appointed Christ could suffer in thy stead, is it not enough? Jesus Christ hath ascended up on high, and exalted he is that he may give repentance and remission of sin. You shall not stand out against him. Christian people, you ought to have a clannish feeling! There is more effect in faith in the blood of Christ to change the human character than in every other consideration. (5.) O thou who feelest in thine own body the effect of thy sin, till thou art loathing thyself, and wishing thou hadst never been born perhaps thou sayest, like John Bunyan, "Oh that I had been a frog, or a toad, or a snake, sooner than have been a man, to have fallen into such sin, and to have become so foul!" We have crowns infinitely more precious, and we belong to a royal house transcendently more glorious than any of yours. It says, "He shall see his seed." We cannot see them all; but HE shall see his seed. It is rendered guiltiness Genesis 26:10; sin Proverbs 14:9; trespass Numbers 5:8. 440.]. The idea is, that he was himself innocent, and that he gave up his soul or life in order to make an expiation for sin - as the innocent animal in sacrifice was offered to God as an acknowledgment of guilt. It is not as if Christ had put so much into the scale and it was quivering in the balance; but your sins, for all their gravity, utterly ceased their pressure through the tremendous weight of his atonement. Good News Bible (Catholic edition in Septuagint order) Verse Isaiah 7:25 All the hills where crops used to grow will be so overgrown with thorns that no one will go there. Crying out the twenty-second psalm, and in the verse Isaiah 53:3 the answer is given, "For Thou art holy, O Thou that inhabitest the praises of Thy people." It does not of necessity imply that there was any positive and direct agency on the part of Yahweh in bruising him, but only that the fact of his being thus crushed and bruised was acceptable to him. The time is come; the men with the halberts precede him through the streets. See Psalms 127:5; Psalms 128:6 : Yea, thou shalt see thy childrens children, and peace upon Israel. So one of the highest blessings which could be promised to Abraham was that he would be made the father of many nations Genesis 12:2; Genesis 17:5-6. from Jerusalem a passage which nine times mentions and describes the suffering "Righteous Servant" and His substitutionary and sacrificial death for our sins and transgressions. Christ did not make himself a sin-offering without a warrant from the Most High: God made him so. So in your ministry, just lift up Jesus, and they even have choruses, "Let's lift Him higher, let's lift Him higher. Christ was so perfectly well qualified for his undertaking, and prosecuted it with so much vigour, and it was from first to last so well devised, that it could not fail to prosper, to the honour of his Father and the salvation of all his seed. His heart is too full for utterance. He shall see his seed - His posterity; his descendants. You see, God created man in the beginning for fellowship. 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