Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Isaiah 53 SERIES - Verse 4

 Commentary of Charles Spurgeon, Adam Clarke & Matthew Henry
 
Surely he hath borne our griefs, 

and carried our sorrows: 
yet we did esteem him stricken, 
smitten of God, and afflicted.
Vs.4 
 
He had griefs and sorrows
being acquainted with them, he kept up the acquaintance,
and did not grow shy, no, not of such melancholy acquaintance. 

Were griefs and sorrows allotted him?
He bore them, and blamed not his lot; he carried them, and did neither shrink from them, nor sink under them. 
 
---He had blows and bruises; he was stricken, smitten, and afflicted. 
---His sorrows bruised him; he felt pain and smart from them; they touched him in the most tender part, especially when God was dishonored, and when he forsook him upon the cross.
----At last he was smitten with the hand, with blow after blow.
 
It was a very great mystery that so excellent a person should suffer such hard things; and it is natural to ask with amazement, "What evil had he done?