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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 52:14 - 52:14
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Summary of Messiah’s history, which is set forth more in detail in the fifty-third chapter. “Just as many were astonished (accompanied with aversion, Jer 18:16; Jer 19:8), etc.; his visage, etc.; so shall He sprinkle,” etc.; Israel in this answers to its antitype Messiah, now “an astonishment and byword” (Deu 28:37), hereafter about to be a blessing and means of salvation to many nations (Isa 2:2, Isa 2:3; Mic 5:7).
thee; his - Such changes of persons are common in Hebrew poetry.
marred - Hebrew, “disfigurement”; abstract for concrete; not only disfigured, but disfigurement itself.
more than man - Castalio translates, “so that it was no longer that of a man” (compare Psa 22:6). The more perfect we may suppose the “body prepared” (Heb 10:5) for Him by God, the sadder by contrast was the “marring” of His visage and form.