Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Rather, "His grave was appointed," or "they appointed Him His grave" [HENGSTENBERG]; that is, they intended (by crucifying Him with two thieves, Matthew 27:38) that He should have His grave "with the wicked." Compare John 19:31, the denial of honorable burial being accounted a great ignominy (see on Isaiah 14:19; Jeremiah 26:23).
and with . . . rich--rather, "but He was with a rich man," etc. GESENIUS, for the parallelism to "the wicked," translates "ungodly" (the effect of riches being to make one ungodly); but the Hebrew everywhere means "rich," never by itself ungodly; the parallelism, too, is one of contrast; namely, between their design and the fact, as it was ordered by God (Matthew 27:57; Mark 15:43-46; John 19:39-40); two rich men honored Him at His death, Joseph of Arimathæa, and Nicodemus.
in his death--Hebrew, "deaths." LOWTH translates, "His tomb"; bamoth, from a different root, meaning "high places," and so mounds for sepulture (Ezekiel 43:7). But all the versions oppose this, and the Hebrew hardly admits it. Rather translate, "after His death" [HENGSTENBERG]; as we say, "at His death." The plural, "deaths," intensifies the force; as Adam by sin "dying died" (Genesis 2:17, Margin); that is, incurred death, physical and spiritual. So Messiah, His substitute, endured death in both senses; spiritual, during His temporary abandonment by the Father; physical, when He gave up the ghost.
because--rather, as the sense demands (so in Job 16:17), "although He had done no," etc. [HENGSTENBERG], (1 Peter 2:20-22; 1 John 3:5).
violence--that is, wrong.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Job 16:16
Psalms 40:6-8
Isaiah 52:13
Isaiah 52:13
Isaiah 53:1
Luke 4:18-19
John 1:29
John 19:38-40
1 Peter 2:22
Revelation 14:5
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