Teks -- Isaiah 53:3 (NET)

53:3 He was despised and rejected by people, one who experienced pain and was acquainted with illness; people hid their faces from him; he was despised, and we considered him insignificant.

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Wesley: Isa 53:3 - We hid

We scorned to look upon him.

JFB: Isa 53:3 - rejected

"forsaken of men" [GESENIUS]. "Most abject of men." Literally, "He who ceases from men," that is, is no longer regarded as a man [HENGSTENBERG]. (See on Isa 52:14; Isa 49:7).

JFB: Isa 53:3 - man of sorrows

That is, whose distinguishing characteristic was sorrows.

JFB: Isa 53:3 - acquainted with

Familiar by constant contact with.

JFB: Isa 53:3 - grief

Literally, "disease"; figuratively for all kinds of calamity (Jer 6:14); leprosy especially represented this, being a direct judgment from God. It is remarkable Jesus is not mentioned as having ever suffered under sickness.

JFB: Isa 53:3 - and we hid . . . faces

Rather, as one who causes men to hide their faces from Him (in aversion) [MAURER]. Or, "He was as an hiding of the face before it," that is, as a thing before which a man covers his face in disgust [HENGSTENBERG]. Or, "as one before whom is the covering of the face"; before whom one covers the face in disgust [GESENIUS].

JFB: Isa 53:3 - we

The prophet identifying himself with the Jews. See HORSLEY'S view (see on Isa 53:1).

JFB: Isa 53:3 - esteemed . . . not

Negative contempt; the previous words express positive.

Clarke: Isa 53:3 - Acquainted with grief

Acquainted with grief - For וידוע vidua , familiar with grief, eight MSS. and one edition have וירע veyada , and knowing grief; the Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate read it ויודע veyodea

We hid as it were our faces from him "As one that hideth his face from us"- For וכמסתר uchemaster , four MSS. (two ancient) have וכמסתיר uchemastir , one MS. ומסתיר umastir . For פנים panim , two MSS. have פניו panaiu ; so likewise the Septuagint and Vulgate. Mourners covered up the lower part of their faces, and their heads, 2Sa 15:30; Eze 29:17; and lepers were commanded by the law, Lev 13:45, to cover their upper lip. From which circumstance it seems that the Vulgate, Aquila, Symmachus, and the Jewish commentators have taken the word נגוע nagua , stricken, in the next verse, as meaning stricken with the leprosy: εν αφῃ οντα, Sym.; αφημενον, Aq.; leprosum, Vulg. So my old MS. Bible. I will insert the whole passage as curious: -

There is not schap to him, ne fairnesse

And we seegen him, and he was not of sigte

And we desiriden him dispisid; and the last of men

Man of souaris and witing infirmitie

And he hid his cheer and despisid

Wherfor ne we settiden bi him

Verili our seeknesse he toke and our sorewis he bair

And we helden him as leprous and smyten of God, and meekid

He forsoth wounded is for our wickednesse

Defoulid is for our hidous gilti

The discipline of our pese upon him

And with his wanne wound we ben helid.

Calvin: Isa 53:3 - Despised and rejected // We hid the face from him

3.Despised and rejected This verse conveys the same statement as the preceding, namely, that Christ will be “rejected” by men, in consequence of their beholding in him nothing but grief and infirmity. These things needed to be often repeated to the Jews, that they might not form a false conception of Christ and his kingdom; for, in order to know his glory, we must proceed from his death to his resurrection. Many stumble at his death, as if he had been vanquished and overwhelmed by it; but we ought to contemplate his power and majesty in the resurrection; and if any one choose to begin with the resurrection, he will not follow the order laid down by the Prophet, nor comprehend the Lord’s strength and power.

We hid the face from him Not without reason does he use the first person, we; for he declares that there will be a universal judgment; and no man will ever be able to comprehend it by his own understanding till the Lord correct and form him anew by his Spirit. Although he appears chiefly to censure the Jews, who ought not to have so haughtily rejected the Son of God promised and offered to them, and therefore reckons himself as one of the number, because he was an individual belonging to that nation; yet let us learn from this passage that all men are accursed and condemned for ingratitude in despising Christ, because they do not even consider him to be worthy of being looked at, but turn away their eyes as if from something detestable.

Defender: Isa 53:3 - we hid

Just as Adam and Eve tried to hide from God (Gen 3:8), so we try to hide our rebellious ways from Christ.

Defender: Isa 53:3 - esteemed him not

Literally, "we estimated Him as nothing" - the typical reaction of the world to Jesus Christ as our suffering substitute."

TSK: Isa 53:3 - despised // a man // we hid as it were our faces from him

despised : Isa 49:7, Isa 50:6; Psa 22:6-8, Psa 69:10-12, Psa 69:19, Psa 69:20; Mic 5:1; Zec 11:8, Zec 11:12, Zec 11:13; Mat 26:67, Mat 27:39-44, Mat 27:63; Mar 9:12, Mar 15:19; Luk 8:53, Luk 9:22, Luk 16:14; Luk 23:18-25; Joh 8:48; Heb 12:2, Heb 12:3

a man : Isa 53:4, Isa 53:10; Psa 69:29; Mat 26:37, Mat 26:38; Mar 14:34; Luk 19:41; Joh 11:35; Heb 2:15-18, Heb 4:15, Heb 5:7

we hid as it were our faces from him : or, he hid as it were, his face from us. Heb. as a hiding of faces from him or from us. we esteemed. Deu 32:15; Zec 11:13; Mat 27:9, Mat 27:10; Joh 1:10,Joh 1:11; Act 3:13-15

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Poole: Isa 53:3 - He is despised and rejected of men // A man of sorrows // Acquainted with grief // We hid as it were our faces from him // He was despised, and we esteemed him not

He is despised and rejected of men accounted as the scum of mankind, as one unworthy of the company and conversation of all men.

A man of sorrows whose whole life was filled with, and in a manner made up of, an uninterrupted succession of sorrows and sufferings.

Acquainted with grief who had constant experience of and familiar converse with grievous afflictions; for knowledge is oft taken practically, or for experience, as Gen 3:5 2Co 5:21 , and elsewhere.

We hid as it were our faces from him we scorned and loathed to look upon him. Or, as others,

he hid as it were his face from us, as one ashamed to show his face, or to be seen by any men, as persons conscious to themselves of any great deformity do commonly shun the sight of men, as lepers did, Lev 13:45 .

He was despised, and we esteemed him not: here are divers words expressing the same thing, to signify both the utmost degree of contempt, and how strange and wonderful a thing it was, that so excellent a person should be so despised.

Haydock: Isa 53:3 - Not

Not. The whole life of Christ was spent in the midst of poverty, and contradictions, Hebrews iv. 15. He has thus taught us to despise ourselves.

Gill: Isa 53:3 - He is despised, and rejected of men // a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief // and we hid as it were our faces from him // he was despised, and we esteemed him not

He is despised, and rejected of men,.... Or, "ceaseth from men" ^f; was not admitted into the company and conversation of men, especially of figure; or ceased from the class of men, in the opinion of others; he was not reckoned among men, was accounted a worm, and no man; or, if a man, yet not in his senses, a madman, nay, one that had a devil: or "deficient of men"; he had none about him of any rank or figure in life, only some few fishermen, and some women, and publicans, and harlots. The Vulgate Latin version renders it, "the last of men", the most abject and contemptible of mankind; despised, because of the meanness of his birth, and parentage, and education, and of his outward appearance in public life; because of his apostles and audience; because of his doctrines, not agreeably to carnal reason, and his works, some of them being done on the sabbath day, and, as they maliciously suggested, by the help of Satan; and especially because of his ignominious sufferings and death:

a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: or "known by grief" ^g; he was known by his troubles, notorious for them; these were his constant companions, his familiar acquaintance, with whom he was always conversant; his life was one continued series of sorrow, from the cradle to the cross; in his infancy his life was sought for by Herod, and he was obliged to be taken by his parents, and flee into Egypt; he ate his bread in sorrow, and with the sweat of his brow; he met with much sorrow from the hardness and unbelief of men's hearts, and from the contradiction of sinners against himself, and even much from the frowardness of his own disciples; much from the temptations of Satan, and more from the wrath and justice of God, as the surety of his people; he was exceeding sorrowful in the garden, when his sweat was as it were great drops of blood; and when on the cross, under the hidings of his Father's face, under a sense of divine displeasure for the sins of his people, and enduring the pains and agonies of a shameful and an accursed death; he was made up of sorrows, and grief was familiar to him. Some render it, "broken with infirmity", or "grief" ^h:

and we hid as it were our faces from him; as one loathsome and abominable as having an aversion to him, and abhorrence of him, as scorning to look at him, being unworthy of any notice. Some render it, "he hid as it were his face from us" ⁱ; as conscious of his deformity and loathsomeness, and of his being a disagreeable object, as they said; but the former is best:

he was despised, and we esteemed him not; which is repeated to show the great contempt cast upon him, and the disesteem he was had in by all sorts of persons; professors and profane, high and low, rich poor, rulers and common people, priests, Scribes, and Pharisees; no set or order of men had any value for him; and all this disgrace and dishonour he was to undergo, to repair the loss of honour the Lord sustained by the sin of man, whose surety Christ became.