Verse 14
14, 15. 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, Jeremiah 18:16; Jeremiah 19:8), c. his visage, c. so shall He sprinkle," c. Israel in this answers to its antitype Messiah, now "an astonishment and byword" (Jeremiah 19:8- :), hereafter about to be a blessing and means of salvation to many nations (Isaiah 2:2; Isaiah 2:3; Micah 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 Psalms 22:6). The more perfect we may suppose the "body prepared" (Psalms 22:6- :) for Him by God, the sadder by contrast was the "marring" of His visage and form.
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