Isaiah 53:2. For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground:
This is why Christ was not received by those to whom he came, - and why the testimony of the prophets concerning Christ was rejected by those to whom it was delivered, - because he was not revealed to them as a towering palm-tree or widely-spreading cedar: but, like the humble yet fruitful vine, he was "as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground."
Isaiah 53:2. He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
To carnal eyes, there was no beauty apparent in Christ, - nothing of the aesthetic, as men call it, and nothing of the pompous, nothing outwardly attractive. He came here in the utmost simplicity. Remember the angels’ message to the shepherds: "And this shall be a sign unto you; ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger." There was nothing of pomp or show about him: "no form nor comeliness." He made no display of scholarship, no presence of deep philosophy, nothing that the carnal mind hunts after; but the all-glorious Deity, revealed in human form, spake simple but sublime truth, and therefore men rejected him.
Isaiah 53:2. For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground:
This is why Christ was not received by those to whom he came, - and why the testimony of the prophets concerning Christ was rejected by those to whom it was delivered, - because he was not revealed to them as a towering palm-tree or widely-spreading cedar: but, like the humble yet fruitful vine, he was "as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground."
Isaiah 53:2. He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
To carnal eyes, there was no beauty apparent in Christ, - nothing of the aesthetic, as men call it, and nothing of the pompous, nothing outwardly attractive. He came here in the utmost simplicity. Remember the angels’ message to the shepherds: "And this shall be a sign unto you; ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger." There was nothing of pomp or show about him: "no form nor comeliness." He made no display of scholarship, no presence of deep philosophy, nothing that the carnal mind hunts after; but the all-glorious Deity, revealed in human form, spake simple but sublime truth, and therefore men rejected him.