At the outset, one should know that the relation of the Hebrew text of Isaiah (as we know it in modern editions) to the Septuagint version is . Multitudes of religious persons are like waxworks, well-proportioned, and you might mistake them by candle-light for life; but in the light of God you would soon discover that there is a mighty difference, for the best that human skill can do is a poor imitation of real life. Taking our text, then, as a guide, we propose to visit Calvary, hoping to have the help of the Holy Spirit whilst we look upon him who died upon the cross. Why his seed? Added to the exaltation prophesied in the first stanza, the eternity of The Lord Jesus Christ is clearly visible. There is a passage in Jeremiah, the forty-fourth chapter and the fourth verse, where he calls it "That abominable thing which I hate." I believe the Christ will come in to see all his beloved purchased ones; and he will search to see whether we are all there. Brethren, pray for me, and all who are faithful to the truth of God, that we may be upheld in our steadfastness. Isaiah 53:10. (3.) Best Top New Controversial Q&A . We adore him in the infinite majesty of his unutterable love. "Yet it pleased Jehovah 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 Jehovah shall prosper in his hand. It has been announced to him that to-morrow is his burning day. However, many times they made the divisions in the wrong place, and in our reading we are prone to read to an end of a chapter and then quit until the next reading. 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. Note, (1.) The days are evil, but the Lord is good. Why, because everyone, who is a true follower or disciple of Christ, has been born by a new birth from him into the position of disciple. The birth of a son to Isaiah. 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. That would be distinctly true; but the text does not so read. We have seen how fit and proper a person he was to be such. "Of all whom thou hast given me, I have lost none." Let every sinner here who desires something stable to fix his faith upon, listen to these simple truths, which I am trying to put as plainly as possible. It is the very same word that Jesus used in the New Testament when talking to His disciples said, "And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto Me" ( John 12:32 ). 1 The prophet, complaining of incredulity, excuseth the scandal of the cross, 4 by the benefit of his passion, 10 and the good success thereof. Look at him, and mark if he be not man in soul as well as in body. Ah! Now, mark: when you see Christ going up the Mount of Doom, you see man going there: when you see Christ hurled upon his back, upon the wooden cross, you see the whole company of his elect there; and when you see the nails driven through his blessed hands and feet, it is the whole body of his Church who there, in their substitute, are nailed to the tree. Therefore [the Father says] will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong ( Isaiah 53:12 ); "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and if sons, then heirs, joint-heirs with Jesus Christ" ( Romans 8:16-17 ), as He divides the spoil with the strong. The cross once seen, sin is crucified: the passion of the Master once apprehended as being endured for us, we then feel that we are not our own, but are bought with a price. 3 He was despised and was avoided by men, +. 2. (1.) When thou shalt make his soul an offering The word nephesh, soul, is frequently used in Hebrew to signify life. I mean, just a dull evening. Christ's death hath done it. This word properly means, blame, guilt which one contracts by transgression Genesis 26:10; Jeremiah 51:5; also a sacrifice for guilt; a sin-offering; an expiatory sacrifice. Here is heroism indeed; but God spared not his own Son, his only-begotten Son, but freely delivered him up for us all. If God's appointed Christ could suffer in thy stead, is it not enough? Surely, children are like their father not all to the same degree; but still there is the evidence of their sonship in their likeness to him from whom they came. It has great effect upon men when they are born again, and are saved from the wrath to come, and are full of gratitude on this account; but before that happens, we have known men admire the conduct of Christ, and even write books about the beauty of his character, while, at the same time, they have denied his Godhead. The father takes his son, binds his hands behind his back, piles up the stones, makes an altar, lays the wood, and has his fire ready. That fellowship that He can bring to us with the Father. (Exodus 29:15) And if a private individual offered a sacrifice, he also laid his hand upon it, as if he threw upon it his own sin. We cost him so much, that he must delight in us. It isn't for the beautiful form that we will be attracted. The second effect of Christ's death is, "He shall prolong his days." It is to run a theater and a public-house, and include atheists in its membership. As a man hands down to his posterity his possessions, Christ Jesus has made over to his people all that he is, and all that he has, and all that he ever will be, that they may be with him, and behold his glory, and shine with him as the stars for ever and ever. I tell thee, man, there is nothing of thine own wanted. "He shall see his seed." One would think he were going to a bridal, rather than to be burned. You don't get the full brunt of it. Something to ponder. Obey the precept, and the promise is yours. Isaiah 55. That he shall himself continue to take care of the affairs of this numerous family: He shall prolong his days. He shall see his seed - His posterity; his descendants. Jehovah has declared his decree, "Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion." In a word, the redemption wrought by Christ being the full deliverance of the persons redeemed from all misery, wherein they were inwrapped, by the price of his blood, it can not possibly be conceived to be universal unless all be saved: so that the opinion of the Universalists is unsuitable to redemption.". More than that: Christ has ascended upon high. Behold, My Servant shall deal prudently; He shall be exalted and extolled and be very high. You know that you could legally and at once demand a receipt and an acquittance from any one who is your creditor, so long as his debt is discharged, though it is discharged by another, and not by you. You know best, brothers and sisters, whether this is true of you; but if we have not the Spirit of Christ, we are none of his. However, as they think further they realize that he is suffering not for his own sins, but for the sins of others; in fact, their sins. Every form of torture which devils could invent was inflicted upon Christian men and women. There is no beauty there that we should desire. John W. Welch has mentioned some of the reasons that readers differ on the identity of the "righteous servant" in Isaiah 53. You are of the seed of him "who only hath immortality." Never imagine, oh! b "videbit semen quod prolongabit dies", Cocceius; "videbit semen longaevum", V. L. 10 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 the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand; the work of man's redemption, put into the hands of Christ, which he undertook to accomplish; which was with him and before him, when he came into this world, and was his meat and drink to do; this he never left till he had finished it; so that it succeeded and prospered with him: and this may well be called "the pleasure of the Lord"; it was the good pleasure of his will; it was what he purposed and resolved; what his heart was set upon, and was well pleasing to him, as effected by his Son. And are we ever in our right senses, brethren, till the Holy Spirit really brings us into them? Many divines say that Christ did something when he died that enabled God to be just, and yet the Justifier of the ungodly. He could not, I will venture to say, even then have suffered an equivalent for that eternal misery which the ungodly deserve; and if he were a mere man, he must suffer precisely the same. If thou art damned it is not for want of invitation. Learn from this that all who truly follow Christ, and are saved by him, have his life in them. There are a few of the boldest of the saints gathered round the stake, and as he unrobes himself, ere he stands upon the fagots to receive his doom, he tells them that it is a joyous thing to be a soldier of Christ, to be allowed to give his body to be burned; and he shakes hands with them, and bids them "Good by" with merry cheer. "Who shall say it was due to the Divine Father that Christ should be nailed to the accursed tree, to suffer, bleed, and die, and then be cast into the grave? All of the accusations. ; Isaiah 53:11 Or (with Masoretic Text) 11 He will see the fruit of his suffering / and will be satisfied; Isaiah 53:11 Or by knowledge of him; Isaiah 53:12 Or many; Isaiah 53:12 Or numerous Your sins have nailed Christ's hands to the cross, your sins have pierced his heart; and his heart is not pierced in vain, nor are those hands nailed there for naught. But now to go a step further, and with as much brevity as possible. He shall see his seed, number his followers in the countless millions; he shall prolong his days, be raised from the dead; the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand, 1e., righteousness shall prosper in the world; he shall justify many, 1e., countless millions shall be saved from their sins through him; I will divide him a portion with the great, Jesus Christ shall attain worldwide and perpetual "greatness." And so, "He shall see the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied.". Jerome renders it, If he shall lay down his life for sin. The Septuagint renders it in the plural, If you shall give (an offering) for sin, your soul shall see a long-lived posterity. Lowth renders it, If his soul shall make a propitiatory sacrifice. Rosenmuller renders it, If his soul, that is, he himself, shall place his soul as an expiation for sin. Noyes renders it, But since he gave himself a sacrifice for sin. It seems to me that the margin is the correct rendering, and that it is to be regarded as in the third person. Now, can any mind imagine how the father's grief must overflow all the banks of his soul, when, as he walked up that hill-side, his son said to him, "Father, behold the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering?" Christian people, you ought to have a clannish feeling! 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