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But; but this was a most false and unrighteous sentence.
He was wounded; which word comprehends all his pains and punishments, and his death among and above the rest.
For our transgressions; not by them, which is expressed by another particle, not by the wickedness of the Jews; but for or because of them, as this particle commonly signifies, for the guilt of their sins, which he had voluntarily taken upon himself, and for the expiation of their sins, which was hereby purchased and procured of God for men. Which interpretation is confirmed,
1. By the opposition of this truth to the false opinion mentioned in the foregoing clause, that he was smitten of God for the guilt of his own sins.
2. By the following clause, as we shall see.
3. By the nature of the thing; this being evident from scriptures both from the Old and New Testament, that Christ was not to suffer for his own, but for other men’s sins. See Dan_9:24,26.
The chastisement of our peace; those punishments by which our peace, i.e. our reconciliation to God, and salvation, or happiness, was to be purchased.
Was upon him; was laid upon him by God’s justice with his own consent.
With his stripes we are healed; by his sufferings we are saved from our sins, and from the dreadful effects thereof.