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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He is despised, and rejected of men,.... Or, "ceaseth from men" (f); was not admitted into the company and conversation of men, especially of figure; or ceased from the class of men, in the opinion of others; he was not reckoned among men, was accounted a worm, and no man; or, if a man, yet not in his senses, a madman, nay, one that had a devil:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. We rightly sing, — “Rejected and despised of men, Behold a man of woe! And grief his close companion still Through all his life below! “We held him as condemn’d of heaven, An outcast...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. It was not only Christ’s humiliation, but his sorrow, which became a stumbling-block in the way of the unbelieving Jews. How could they, who were looking for an earthly deliverer to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He is despised and rejected of men; This was written long before he came to earth: “He is despised and rejected of men,” and, truly, though he is now in heaven, I need not alter the tense of the verb. I do not say, “He was despised,” though that would be true; for, alas! it is still true, “He is despised and rejected of men;” — Isa_53:3. A man of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrow, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. While the Redeemer was here below, his state of poverty, obscurity, suffering, and shame, was of such a character that few would believe in him, and even those, who afterwards received...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. It was so with Jesus when he was here. He was the greatest of all sufferers: there were few that followed him; some of those who did betrayed him. There were few who would stand up for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Oh, how sad it is that the Son of the Most High God, when he condescended to wear our nature, received such base treatment as this from the hands of men! How equally sad is it that his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows,.... Or "nevertheless", as Gussetius (k); notwithstanding the above usage of him; though it is a certain and undoubted truth, that Christ not only assumed a true human nature, capable of sorrow and grief, but he took all the natural sinless infirmities of it; or his human nature was subject...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. What a joyous note there is in that sorrowful line, “With his stripes...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: What a discovery this truth seems to be! How it bursts upon the prophet and his hearers and amazes them! “Surely,” they say, “can it be really so that ‘ he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows’?” Yes, it is indeed so; there is no accounting for the sufferings of the perfect Christ...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. If this does not teach the doctrine of a vicarious atonement, what does it teach? If Christ’s sufferings were not endured in our...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely he hath borne our griefs, — Can all of you say this? Can every one of us unite in the reading of this sentence, “Surely, he hath borne our griefs”? If you have truly learned that he bore your griefs, you may indeed bless his name, for it is the best news that ever reached your ears. Go and tell it to your fellow sufferers: “Surely he hath...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chatisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes, we are healed. It is substitution, you see, all through, — Christ suffering instead...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for out transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. He had not a pang to suffer on his own account, nothing to cause him...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows :-- Listen, ye sad ones, ye sorrowful ones! Let this sweet note charm you into joy: “He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.” Isa_53:4. Yet we — We, for whom he was the Substitute, for whom he smarted: “Yet we” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. Wonderful medicine! Marvelous healing! Where shall we find the like? The Physician drinks the bitter draught, and so cures the patient;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But he was wounded for our transgressions,.... Not for any sins of his own, but for ours, for our rebellions against God, and transgressions of his law, in order to make atonement and satisfaction for them; these were the procuring and meritorious causes of his sufferings and death, as they were taken upon him by him to answer for them to divine...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. Milton, Shakespeare, Cowper, and the whole of the poets that ever were or are, all put together, could not write four sentences like those in this verse. There is more meaning, more deep...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
All we like sheep have gone astray,.... Here the prophet represents all the elect of God, whether Jews or Gentiles; whom he compares to "sheep", not for their good qualities, but for their foolishness and stupidity; and particularly for their being subject to go astray from the shepherd, and the fold, and from their good pastures, and who never...