God the Son treated
inhumanely, disfigured beyond recognition,
On whom was placed the
sins of humankind, “wounded for our rebellion,”
On whom the guilt of us
all was placed, that He might reconcile us all to our Creator.
Disastrously “crushed
because of our guilt” He was led to the slaughter and “never opened his mouth.”
“Forcibly, after
sentence, he was taken” to Calvary for the
Rebellion of us all who “had
gone astray like sheep, each taking his/her own way.”
“Ill-treated and
afflicted, he never opened his mouth, like a lamb led to the slaughter house.”
“Despised, the lowest of
men, a man of sorrows, familiar with suffering,” He was “one from whom…we
averted our gaze….Which of his contemporaries was concerned
At his having been cut
off from the land of the living, at his having been struck dead for his people’s
rebellion? He was given a grave with the
wicked, and his tomb is with the rich…”
Yet “he had done no
violence, had spoken no deceit. It was Yahweh’s good pleasure to crush him with
pain; if he gives his life as a sin offering, he will see his offspring and
prolong his life, and through him Yahweh’s good pleasure [our salvation] will
be done.” Isaiah 52: 14; 53: 3-10).
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