The Fourth Servant Song Septuagint: Journal 2.53 discusses the Septuagint report of Isaiah 53:10-12.. O sirs, it is contrary to fact. Do you feel it? See! There is no other way into the first world but by birth: and there is no other way into the second world, wherein dwelleth righteousness, but by birth, and that birth is strictly connected with the pangs of the Savior's passion, "when thou shalt make his soul an of offering for sin, he shall see his seed." Many, when they see their seed, their seed's seed, wish to depart in peace; but Christ will not commit the care of his family to any other, no, he shall himself live long, and of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, for he ever lives. The third day has arrived; the servants are bidden to stay at the foot of the hill, whilst they go to worship God yonder. Even if they go to bed in the dark, they fall asleep the sooner; but in either case, their Lord will see them if they cannot see him. He saw they were necessary, and he was willing that he should be subjected to them. There was needed, also, one of the same nature with us. We have no weapon against this monster, with the double tower on its back, but the gospel of the grace of God. I read in one of the apocrypha books, one of the early writings, a description of Paul the apostle. he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth ( Isaiah 53:7 ). and six editions have the word fully and regularly expressed, shelomeynu ; pacificationum nostrarum , "our pacification;" that by which we are brought into a state of peace and favor with God. That he shall live to see his seed. Pause over the solemn words in the 1st, 2nd, 6th, and following verses. Many divines say that Christ did something when he died that enabled God to be just, and yet the Justifier of the ungodly. I hope soon to be lifting up my voice again. Behold, My Servant shall deal prudently; He shall be exalted and extolled and be very high. The great privilege that flows to us from the death of Christ is justification from sin, our being acquitted from that guilt which alone can ruin us, and accepted into God's favour, which alone can make us happy. Why, sir, it seems a marvel to me that I am out of hell, and Wesley's hymn is often on my lips, 'Tell it unto sinners, tell, I am, I am out of hell. When thou shalt make his soul - Margin, His soul shall make. According to the translation in the text, the speaker is the prophet, and it contains an address to Yahweh, and Yahweh is himself introduced as speaking in Isaiah 53:11. They speak of the seed royal. The chastisement of our peace "The chastisement by which our peace is effected" - Twenty-one MSS. "In the fullness of time" God did rend his Son from his bosom, his only-begotten Son, and freely delivered him up for us all. [2.] Man was condemned to live forever in hell. They look upon Him as an unloving, severe Being, who had no love to the human race, and could only be made loving by the death and agonies of our Saviour. Cyrus, a type of Christ, shall perform all God's pleasure (Isaiah 44:28; Isaiah 44:28), and therefore, no doubt, Christ shall. Christ becomes a substitute for us. In the Greek Septuagint we see the true reading of Isaiah 53:10. The church must perpetually receive fresh light and life from above, or else it would die; but still stands the promise, "He shall see his seed." If any person think that this language is harsh and disrespectful to Christ, let him descend into himself, and, after a close examination, let him ponder how dreadful is the judgment of God, which could not be pacified but by this price; and thus the inestimable grace which shines forth in making Christ accursed will easily remove every ground of offense. We are all equally responsible for His death. In short, Isaiah teaches that sins cannot be pardoned in any other way than by betaking ourselves to the death of Christ. John W. Welch has mentioned some of the reasons that readers differ on the identity of the "righteous servant" in Isaiah 53. Be a debtor to that grace to-night. 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. Really, when men run away from the simplicities of the gospel in order to make Jehovah more kind, it is strange how unjust and unkind they make him. Note, [1.] We must know him, and believe in him, as one that bore our iniquities--saved us from sinking under the load by taking it upon himself. and consider the unexampled love which shines in Christ's gift of himself. But this is the thing of marvel, for which heaven and earth shall ring with the praises of the Mediator, that Jesus Christ died for the ungodly, that Jesus Christ gave himself for their sin; not for their righteousness, not for their good deeds. Can it possibly be conceived that there should be a redemption of men, and those men not redeemed? He didn't know what he had on his hands and he did his best to free Him. Isaiah 53:9). There is a bearded patriarch, who rises early in the morning and awakes his son, a young man full of strength, and bids him arise and follow him. Some years ago, someone, wishing to mock our holy faith, brought out a handbill, which was plastered everywhere "Can you trust in a dead man?" and so Aben Ezra says these words are spoken of the generation that shall return to God, and to the true religion, at the coming of the Messiah. Have courage, sinner; have courage. And so that we might see the relationship with 53, we will begin our study of chapter 53 with verse Isaiah 52:13 of 52. You are ignorant and unlettered, it may be, and your name will never shine in the roll of science, but he who is the divine Wisdom owns you as one of his seed. author: richard frederick littledale a commentary on the song of songs. It is the good pleasure of the Lord, which denotes not only his counsel concerning it, but his complacency in it; and therefore God loved him, and was well pleased in him, because he undertook to lay down his life for the sheep. 6All we as sheep have gone astray; every one has gone astray in his way; and the Lord gave him up for our sins. But when a man comes to see that he is pardoned and saved through the death of Jesus, he is moved to gratitude, and then to love. '", "Yes, sir," says such a sinner, "I feel that if God should smite me now, without hope or offer of mercy, to the lowest hell, I should only have what I justly deserve; and I feel that if I be not punished for my sins, or if there be not some plan found by which my sin can be punished in another, I cannot understand how God can be just at all: how shall he be Judge of all the earth, if he suffer offenses to go unpunished?" Those who hate him leave him to die in disgrace like a criminal, but those who love him give him an honourable burial. And it is interesting to watch their shocked expressions when they see me. 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. It looked as if the living church of God would be extinguished altogether; but it was not so, for God did but stamp his foot, and, from all parts of the country, men like Mr. Wesley and Mr. Whitefield, came to the front, and hundreds of others, mighty men of valor, proclaimed the gospel with unusual power, and away went the bats and the owls back to their proper dwelling-place. He suffered himself to be ranked with sinners, and yet offered himself to be an intercessor for sinners, Isaiah 53:12; Isaiah 53:12. The first effect of the Saviour's death is, "He shall see his seed." But Christ shall ell joy the society of his children; for he shall not die like other men, but shall obtain eternal life in himself and his children. 1. So God declares, "By his knowledge shall My righteous servant justify many.". But Jesus rose. There is a passage in Jeremiah, the forty-fourth chapter and the fourth verse, where he calls it "That abominable thing which I hate." Those blindsides are the really thing that will put you out.Now with Jesus as they covered His face and began to buffet Him, no way to feign or to give with the blow, and thus His face must have been horribly disfigured. And people make mistakes many times in relationships because we relate on the physical, rather than upon the true nature of a person.Now, "He is despised and rejected of men; He is a man of sorrows, He's acquainted with grief.". [11] Or (with Masoretic Text) [11] He will see the result of the suffering of his soul and be satisfied [11] Or by knowledge of him A God bowing his head, and suffering and dying, in the person of manhood, puts such a singular efficacy into every groan and every pang that it needs not that his pangs should be eternal, or that he should die a second death. (3.) The gift of a Saviour, such as he was, evinced boundless benevolence; his sufferings in behalf of the guilty showed the holiness of his nature and law; and all demonstrated that he was at the same time disposed to save, and yet resolved that no one should be saved by dishonoring his law, or without expiation for the evil which had been done by sin. There is no effect of Christ's death that is left to peradventure. 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. What faith and obedience made man do, that love constrained God himself to do. His heart is too full for utterance. He lives to carry it on. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." (6.) This prophecy was fulfilled by the Saviour himself when he prayed for those who nailed him to the cross, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do" (Luke 23:34). Why, the parable does not tell us; for it did not run on with the subject to introduce the atonement. Beloved, it is not only true that God did design and did permit with willingness the death of Christ; it is moreover, true that the unutterable agonies that clothed the death of the Saviour with superhuman terror, were the effect of the Father's bruising of Christ in very act and deed. If he had not completed his work of penalty-suffering, he would have been left in the tomb till now; our preaching would have been in vain, and your faith would have been in vain; ye would have been yet in your sins. Our Lord said of those not yet converted, "Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring;" and again, "Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word." Now, such an atonement I despise I reject it. Dost thou see him in proper flesh and blood fastened to that tree? Look ye there, and see the place where his only Son hung dead upon the cross, the bleeding victim of awakened justice! If there be a universal redemption of all, then all men are redeemed. As Christ himself stated it: "I am the first and the last and the Living one; and I was dead, and, behold, I am alive forever more, and I have the keys of death and of Hades" (Revelation 1:18). Here is love indeed; and here we see how it was, that it pleased the Father to bruise him. That a price should be paid and the ransom not consummated? but the great arms of the Eternal Father are ready to save you as you are, because the great work of Christ has effected all that is wanted before God for the acceptance of the vilest sinner. Christ has died; but still everything that we receive comes to us entirely as a gratuitous outflow of God's great heart of love. It is true, Christ died really himself; it is equally true that he did not die for himself, but died as the substitute, in the room, place, and stead of all believers. First, we have THE ORIGIN OF CHRIST'S DEATH. He could not long be held a prisoner in the tomb. The gallant vessel of the church ploughed the red waves of a crimson sea, her prow scarlet with gore, but the ship itself was the better for its washing, and sailed all the more gallantly because of boisterous winds. Doubtless 'universal,' and 'redemption,' where the greatest part of men perish, are as irreconcilable as 'Roman, and 'Catholic.' 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. He shall see it beforehand (so it may be understood); he shall with the prospect of his sufferings have a prospect of the fruit, and he shall be satisfied with the bargain. The servants suffering and glory (52:13-53:12). Did he suffer it all? In accordance with this, the Messiah is promised that he shall see a numerous spiritual posterity. Religion will be promoted and extended through him. Isaiah 53:10. If thou wilt, then God has made him to be a sin-offering for thee; but if thou wilt not, beware, lest he whom thou wouldst not have to be thy Saviour should become thy Judge, and say, "Depart, thou cursed one, into everlasting fire in hell!" This section of the Prophets, also known as the "Suffering Servant," has been. (Isaiah 53:10-12) Hebrew translation. When you live with the living Christ, you will live indeed. 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. It is a sharp sword with two edges, if it be preached as it was delivered at the first. You may stifle this voice, if you will, but sometimes you will hear it; and terribly and decisively will it speak in your ears to say to you, "Yes, man, God must punish you; the Judge of all the earth cannot suffer you to go scot free." Just as many were astonished at you, So His visagewas marred more than any man, And His form more than the sons of men; So shall He sprinkle many nations. (54) (asham) primarily signifies a trespass or offense, and secondarily a trespassoffering. We are glad that there is overwhelming evidence that, not in appearance, but in fact, he died. Thus the name father is often given to the prophets, or to teachers, and the name sons to disciples or learners. Septuagint: Isaiah 3:10 (Tanakh/KJV) Isaiah 3:10 (NET) Isaiah 3:10 (NETS) Isaiah 3:10 (Elpenor English) Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings ().Tell the innocent it will go well with them, for they will be rewarded for what they have done (mall, ). he is fresh from the swine-trough! a "Ubi posuit satisfactionis pretium anima ejus", Cocceius; "si posuerit delictum sua anima", Montanus. 2. Amen. It pleased the Lord to do this. And now where is the artist that can depict the anguish of the fathers countenance, when the knife is unsheathed, and he holds it up, ready to slay his son? We are told here, "Thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin." If they are redeemed, then are they delivered from all misery, virtually or actually, whereunto they were inthralled, and that by the intervention of a ransom. We must also keep in view the contrast. How could he do that? If Jesus is not the Messiah, there is no Messiah. He turns to some who look upon him, and exclaims, "I value these iron chains far more than if they had been of gold; it is a sweet thing to die for Christ. He determined to do it; it was the result of an eternal counsel; and he delighted in it, as it was an effectual method for the salvation of man and the securing and advancing of the honour of God. No; the blood-stained page of that book, the page which makes both past and future glorious with golden words, that blood-stained page, I say, was as much written of Jehovah, as any other. i. That fellowship that He can bring to us with the Father. He is the right person. if your eyes could see to-night the terrible justice of God which a being executed now, if these ears could but hear it, if ye could be appalled for a moment with, " The sullen groans and hollow moans And shrieks of tortured ghosts,", you would soon perceive that God is punishing sin! The reply was: "Indeed, you are right. And now I have just to conclude by noticing the BLESSED EFFECTS of the Saviour's death. And now to the text itself, with brevity. Our answer would have been, "No; nobody can trust in a man who is dead." He shall see his seed." The 'suffering servant' song of Isaiah 52:13-53:12 is one of the most significant of Messianic prophecies that we find in the Hebrew Bible. He arose no more to die. Yes, bless his name, when he died he did not end his life. Do not think that there is a great gulf between you, a living man, and him. Content: Part Seven. Add to this another matter; namely, that God has absolutely declared his displeasure against sin itself. The Hebrew word extolled is the word lifted up. Brethren, our Savior will always behold his redeemed ones. +. I am not yet an old man, as some suppose from the many years of my ministry, but I am often looking forward to that blessed morning, when all the sacred seed shall meet around the throne. As we have heard of a good woman, who, whenever a poor sailor came to her door, whoever he might be, would always make him welcome, because, she said, "I think I see my own dear son who has been these many years away, and I have never heard of him; but whenever I see a sailor, I think of him, and treat the stranger kindly for my son's sake." He made it to be in us a well of water springing up. We take life from our parents, this links us with the first Adam: we have taken life from Christ, and this joins us to the second Adam. Why did God provide a sin-offering but for sinners? Look upon the whole transaction of a substitute, and of Christ becoming the second Adam, as being a matter of pure, rich, free, sovereign grace, and never indulge the atrocious thought, I pray you, that there was justice, and justice only here; but do magnify the love and pity of God in that he did devise and accomplish the great plan of salvation by an atoning sacrifice. That he shall himself have abundant satisfaction in it (Isaiah 53:11; Isaiah 53:11): He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied. No," says he, "I believe in a just God, and if God be just, he will not punish Christ first, and then punish men afterwards. How no rags of yours are wanted; not a stitch of yours is needed to perfect what Christ has done. It is a loving voice which speaks to you, and that would speak, perhaps, better and more forcibly if it were not choked with love. 10The Lord also is pleased to purge him from his stroke. Surely it sets Him alone in history as the only man who could ever qualify to be the Messiah, the suffering servant. 10.Yet Jehovah was pleased to bruise him. Look at him, and mark if he be not man in soul as well as in body. Now, we begin by opposing all this, and asserting, and we believe we have God's warrant of it, that sin intrinsically and in itself demands and deserves the just anger of God, and that that anger should be displayed in the form of a punishment. The penmanship of the solemn book of predestination is from beginning to end entirely divine. 6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Understand, then, the sense in which Christ was made a sacrifice for sin. If I am to be damned for the sake of other people, I demur to it. And here in Isaiah, outstanding example of clear-cut prophecy. The Lord enable you to believe in Jesus now, to take him now as a complete and finished salvation for you, though you may be the most sunken and abandoned and hopeless of all characters. Surely he's a spiritual giant. Interceding for the transgressors. Truly it has satisfied God: is there not enough there to satisfy thee? 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