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NASB | Isaiah 53:5 But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Isaiah 53:5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was crushed for our wickedness [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing]; The punishment [required] for our well-being fell on Him, And by His stripes (wounds) we are healed. |
Subject: claiming things in your life |
Bible Note: 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, |