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… I. THE SUFFERING ITSELF. "He was stricken." The greatness of this suffering will be made out to us upon these three accounts. 1. Of the latitude and extent of it. 2. Of the intenseness and sharpness of it. 3. Of the person inflicting it. II. THE NATURE OF THE SUFFERING, which was penal, and expiatory, "He was stricken for transgression." III. THE GROUND AND CAUSE OF THIS SUFFERING, which was God's propriety in, and relation to, the persons for whom Christ was stricken, implied in this word, "My people." Conclusion: Christianity is a suffering religion, and there are two sorts of suffering to which it will certainly expose every genuine professor of it. 1. A suffering from himself; even that grand suffering of self-denial and mortification, the sharpest and most indispensable of all others, in which every Christian is not only to be the sufferer, but himself also the executioner. "He who is Christ's," says the apostle, "has crucified the flesh with its affections and lusts." 2. From the world. (R. South, D.D.) 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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