Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Transition from His humiliation to His exaltation.
pleased the Lord--the secret of His sufferings. They were voluntarily borne by Messiah, in order that thereby He might "do Jehovah's will" (John 6:38; Hebrews 10:7, Hebrews 10:9), as to man's redemption; so at the end of the verse, "the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand."
bruise--(see Isaiah 53:5); Genesis 3:15, was hereby fulfilled, though the Hebrew word for "bruise," there, is not the one used here. The word "Himself," in Matthew, implies a personal bearing on Himself of our maladies, spiritual and physical, which included as a consequence His ministration to our bodily ailments: these latter are the reverse side of sin; His bearing on Him our spiritual malady involved with it His bearing sympathetically, and healing, the outward: which is its fruits and its type. HENGSTENBERG rightly objects to MAGEE'S translation, "taken away," instead of "borne," that the parallelism to "carried" would be destroyed. Besides, the Hebrew word elsewhere, when connected with sin, means to bear it and its punishment (Ezekiel 18:20). Matthew, elsewhere, also sets forth His vicarious atonement (Matthew 20:28).
when thou, etc.--rather, as Margin, "when His soul (that is, He) shall have made an offering," etc. In the English Version the change of person is harsh: from Jehovah, addressed in the second person (Isaiah 53:10), to Jehovah speaking in the first person in Isaiah 53:11. The Margin rightly makes the prophet in the name of Jehovah Himself to speak in this verse.
offering for sin-- (Romans 3:25; 1 John 2:2; 1 John 4:10).
his seed--His spiritual posterity shall be numerous (Psalms 22:30); nay, more, though He must die, He shall see them. A numerous posterity was accounted a high blessing among the Hebrews; still more so, for one to live to see them (Genesis 48:11; Psalms 128:6).
prolong . . . days--also esteemed a special blessing among the Jews (Psalms 91:16). Messiah shall, after death, rise again to an endless life (Hosea 6:2; Romans 6:9).
prosper-- (Isaiah 52:13, Margin).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Psalms 16:11
Psalms 40:6-8
Ecclesiastes 5:8
Isaiah 42:3
Isaiah 44:28
Isaiah 46:10
Isaiah 49:4
Isaiah 50:9
Isaiah 52:13
Isaiah 52:13
Isaiah 53:1
Isaiah 53:5
Isaiah 53:8
Isaiah 53:10
Jeremiah 23:5
Hosea 6:2
Luke 4:18-19
John 1:29
Galatians 3:29
Hebrews 2:13
Hebrews 10:7
Hebrews 13:21
1 Peter 2:24
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