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1 | claiming things in your life | Is 53:5 | BradK | 136116 | ||
Hi Mark, Good to hear from you and thanks for your reply. I agree with your observations. How I would look at and view Matt. 8:17 is by examining the quotation from Is. 53:4 which says: “Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.” (KJV) C.H. Spurgeon gives this exposition, “What a joyous note there is in that sorrowful line, “With his stripes we are healed”! Glory be to God, we are healed of our soul-sickness, cured of the disease of sin, by this strange surgery, not by stripes upon ourselves, but by stripes upon our Lord!” The Commentary Critical notes, “carried … sorrows—The notion of substitution strictly. “Carried,” namely, as a burden. “Sorrows,” that is, pains of the mind; as “griefs” refer to pains of the body (Ps 32:10; 38:17). Mt 8:17 might seem to oppose this: “And bare our sicknesses.” But he uses “sicknesses” figuratively for sins, the cause of them. Christ took on Himself all man’s “infirmities;” so as to remove them; the bodily by direct miracle, grounded on His participation in human infirmities; those of the soul by His vicarious suffering, which did away with the source of both. Sin and sickness are ethically connected as cause and effect (Is 33:24; Ps 103:3; Mt 9:2; Jn 5:14; Jam 5:15).” We need to further keep in mind the passage as it would have been understood by its’ original, intended audience. Did they have in view “physical healing”? It is also my studied view,that the miracles wrought by Christ were not done simply to heal the individual(s). In other words, the primary purpose was to authenticate His ministry and to show forth that He was the prophesied Messiah to Israel, not just to provide healing! Those are my thoughts:-) Speaking the Truth in Love, |
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2 | claiming things in your life | Is 53:5 | mark d seyler | 136141 | ||
Hi Brad, Yes I agree with you that the widespread healing work done by Jesus was for the purpose of declaring Who He is. "Believe for the works sake" was a common message from Him. I think the context in Matthew, as he wrote of Jesus healing Peter's mother, then then saying Isaiah's prophecy was fullfilled, that Matthew was if fact saying this was about physical healing, and when the disciples asked Jesus of the blind man, John 9:2 "And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?", Jesus asnswered in 9:3, "Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him." As for myself, while I appreciated physical healing in my body, it is in fact the healing of my "soul sickness" that means the most by far. As He has healed my heart and mind, I can more easily bear with my unhealed body. Thank you! Love in Christ, Mark |
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