Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Isaiah 53 SERIES - Verse 10

 Commentary of Charles Spurgeon, Adam Clarke & Matthew Henry
 
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.
Vs.10

Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him, to put him to pain, or torment, or grief. 

The scripture nowhere says that Christ is his sufferings underwent the wrath of God; but it says here, 
(1.) That the Lord bruised him, not only permitted men to bruise him, but awakened his own sword against him, Zec. 13:7. They esteemed him smitten of God for some very great sin of his own (v. 4); now it was true that he was smitten of God, but it was for our sin; the Lord bruised him, for he did not spare him, but delivered him up for us all, Rom. 8:32 
(2.) That he bruised him so as to put him to grief. Christ received the impressions of grief from his Father's delivering him up; and he was troubled to such a degree that it put him into an agony, and he began to be amazed and very heavy. 
(3.) It pleased the Lord to do this. 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 .
 
He subjected himself to that which to us is the wages of sin.