Isaiah 53:8-9 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living… The Jews pretend that no single person is designed in this portion of prophecy; but that the people of Israel collectively are denoted under the figure of one man, and that the purport of the chapter is a delineation of the calamities and sufferings which that nation should undergo, with a view to its correction and amendment. The absurdity of this evasion will be obvious to him who considers that the person who is represented as "stricken" is carefully distinguished by the prophet from the people for whoso benefit He suffered. "For the transgression of My people was He stricken:" in addition to which, He is affirmed to be stricken "even to death," which, as very properly urged, agrees well with the fate of an individual, but not with that of a people. (R. Hall, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. |
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