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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 53:9 - 53:9
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Rather, “His grave was appointed,” or “they appointed Him His grave” [Hengstenberg]; that is, they intended (by crucifying Him with two thieves, Mat 27:38) that He should have His grave “with the wicked.” Compare Joh 19:31, the denial of honorable burial being accounted a great ignominy (see on Isa 14:19; Jer 26:23).
and with ... rich - rather, “but He was with a rich man,” etc. Gesenius, for the parallelism to “the wicked,” translates “ungodly” (the effect of riches being to make one ungodly); but the Hebrew everywhere means “rich,” never by itself ungodly; the parallelism, too, is one of contrast; namely, between their design and the fact, as it was ordered by God (Mat 27:57; Mar 15:43-46; Joh 19:39, Joh 19:40); two rich men honored Him at His death, Joseph of Arimathaea, and Nicodemus.
in his death - Hebrew, “deaths.” Lowth translates, “His tomb”; bamoth, from a different root, meaning “high places,” and so mounds for sepulture (Eze 43:7). But all the versions oppose this, and the Hebrew hardly admits it. Rather translate, “after His death” [Hengstenberg]; as we say, “at His death.” The plural, “deaths,” intensifies the force; as Adam by sin “dying died” (Gen 2:17, Margin); that is, incurred death, physical and spiritual. So Messiah, His substitute, endured death in both senses; spiritual, during His temporary abandonment by the Father; physical, when He gave up the ghost.
because - rather, as the sense demands (so in Job 16:17), “although He had done no,” etc. [Hengstenberg], (1Pe 2:20-22; 1Jo 3:5).
violence - that is, wrong.