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| Chapter XIII.—Isaiah teaches that sins are forgiven through Christ’s blood.
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“For
Isaiah did not send you to a bath, there to wash away murder and other
sins, which not even all the water of the sea were sufficient to purge;
but, as might have been expected, this was that saving bath of the olden
time which followed1973
those who repented, and who
no longer were purified by the blood of goats and of sheep, or by the
ashes of an heifer, or by the offerings of fine flour, but by faith
through the blood of Christ, and through His death, who died for this
very reason, as Isaiah himself said, when he spake thus: ‘The Lord
shall make bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the
nations and the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of God. Depart
ye, depart ye, depart ye,1974
| 1974
Three times in Justin, not in LXX. | go ye out from thence, and
touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her, be ye clean that
bear the vessels of the Lord, for1975
| 1975 Deviating slightly from LXX., omitting a clause.
| ye go not with haste. For the Lord shall go before you; and the
Lord, the God of Israel, shall gather you together. Behold, my servant
shall deal prudently; and He shall be exalted, and be greatly glorified.
As many were astonished at Thee, so Thy form and Thy glory shall be
marred more than men. So shall many nations be astonished at Him, and the
kings shall shut their mouths; for that which had not been told them
concerning Him shall they see, and that which they had not heard shall
they consider. Lord,
who hath believed our report? and to
whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? We have announced Him as a child
before Him, as a root in a dry ground. He hath no form or comeliness, and
when we saw Him He had no form or beauty; but His form is dishonoured,
and fails more than the sons of men. He is a man in affliction, and
acquainted with bearing sickness, because His face has been turned away;
He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. He bears our sins, and is
distressed for us; and we esteemed Him to be in toil and in affliction,
and in evil treatment. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was
bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him.
With His stripes we are healed. All we, like sheep, have gone astray.
Every man has turned to his own way; and the Lord laid on Him our
iniquities, and by reason of His oppression He opens not His mouth. He
was brought as a sheep to the slaughter; and as a lamb before her shearer
is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth. In His humiliation His judgment was
taken away. And who shall declare His generation? For His life is taken
from the earth. Because of the transgressions of my people He came unto
death. And I will give the wicked for His grave, and the rich for His
death, because He committed no iniquity, and deceit was not found in His
mouth. And the Lord wills to purify Him from affliction. If he has been
given for sin, your soul shall see a long-lived seed. And the Lord wills
to take His soul away from trouble, to show Him light, and to form Him in
understanding, to justify the righteous One who serves many well. And He
shall bear our sins; therefore He shall inherit many, and shall divide
the spoil of the strong, because His soul was delivered to death; and He
was numbered with the transgressors, and He bare the sins of many, and
was delivered for their transgression. Sing, O barren, who bearest not;
break forth and cry aloud, thou who dost not travail in pain: for more
are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife.
For the Lord said, Enlarge the place of thy tent and of thy curtains; fix
them, spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; stretch
forth to thy right and thy left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles,
and thou shalt make the desolate cities to be inherited. Fear not because
thou art ashamed, neither be thou confounded because thou hast been
reproached; for thou shalt forget everlasting shame, and shalt not
remember the reproach of thy widowhood, because the Lord has made a name
for Himself, and He who has redeemed thee shall be called through the
whole earth the God of Israel. The Lord has called thee as1976
a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit,
as1977
a woman hated from her youth.’1978
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