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Chapter
XVI.—Christ as an Example of Humility.
For Christ is of those who are humble-minded, and not of
those who exalt themselves over His flock. Our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Sceptre of the majesty of God, did not come in the pomp of pride or
arrogance, although He might have done so, but in a lowly condition, as
the Holy Spirit had declared regarding Him. For He says,
“Lord, who hath believed our report, and to whom is the arm of
the Lord revealed? We have declared [our message] in His
presence: He is, as it were, a child, and like a root in thirsty
ground; He has no form nor glory, yea, we saw Him, and He had no form
nor comeliness; but His form was without eminence, yea, deficient in
comparison with the [ordinary] form of men. He is a man exposed
to stripes and suffering, and acquainted with the endurance of
grief: for His countenance was turned away; He was despised, and
not esteemed. He bears our iniquities, and is in sorrow for our
sakes; yet we supposed that [on His own account] He was exposed to
labour, and stripes, and affliction. But He was wounded for our
transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and
by His stripes we were healed. All we, like sheep, have gone
astray; [every] man has wandered in his own way; and the Lord has
delivered Him up for our sins, while He in the midst of His sufferings
openeth 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; who
shall declare His generation? for His life is taken from the
earth. For the transgressions of my people was He brought down to
death. And I will give the wicked for His sepulchre, and the rich
for His death,4073
| 4073 The Latin of
Cotelerius, adopted by Hefele and Dressel, translates this clause as
follows: “I will set free the wicked on account of His
sepulchre, and the rich on account of His death.” | because He did no
iniquity, neither was guile found in His mouth. And the Lord is
pleased to purify him by stripes.4074
| 4074 The reading of
the ms., is τῆς πληγῆς,
“purify, or free Him, from stripes.” We have adopted
the emendation of Junius. | If ye
make4075
| 4075 Wotton reads,
“If He make.” | an offering for sin, your soul shall see a
long-lived seed. And the Lord is pleased to relieve Him of the
affliction of His soul, to show Him light, and to form Him with
understanding,4076
| 4076 Or,
“fill Him with understanding,” if πλῆσαι should be
read instead of πλάσαι as Grabe
suggests. | to justify the Just
One who ministereth well to many; and He Himself shall carry their
sins. On this account He shall inherit many, and shall divide the
spoil of the strong; because His soul was delivered to death, and He
was reckoned among the transgressors, and He bare the sins of many, and
for their sins was He delivered.”4077
| 4077 Isa. liii. The reader will observe how often
the text of the Septuagint, here quoted, differs from the Hebrew as
represented by our authorized English version. | And again He saith, “I am a
worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
All that see me have derided me; they have spoken with their lips; they
have wagged their head, [saying] He hoped in God, let Him deliver Him,
let Him save Him, since He delighteth in Him.”4078
Ye see, beloved, what is the example
which has been given us; for if the Lord thus humbled Himself, what
shall we do who have through Him come under the yoke of His
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