He was taken away from distress, and from judgment: who shall declare his generation? because he is cut off out of the land of the living: for the wickedness of my people have I struck him.
Francis Patrick Kenrick
The vicarious character of Hie suffering is repeatedly declared. R. maintains that the whole Israelitic people is here contemplated by the prophet in a suffering state, which he endeavors to prove by the pro- noun 13*7, which is ordinarily the poetic plural. This, however, is found applied to the singular number, supra 44 : 15, where the idolater is said to worship the idol. Cornelius a'Lapide refers it to the punish- ment of the people for rejecting Christ. Sachs, with L., translates it in the singular, although they take it to mean the people, who, they say, were punished by God for the crimes of the heathen. This, how- ever, is a forced interpretation, and foreign to scriptural usage, according to which the heathen are not styled by God : " My people."
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.