Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures

His judgment was taken away in humility and adds : " This signifies that He ascended victorious to the Father, from tribulation and judgment ; or that He, the Judge of all, did not receive a fair trial; but, without any fault on his part, was condemned by the seditious Jews, and by the voice of Pilate."

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."

He assigned His grave with the wicked. As His death was that of a malefactor, so His burial was deemed like theirs, although His tomb soon became honored. St. Jerome understands the Gentilee by the wicked, and the Jews by the rich, since they had many privileges : "The Lord suffered and was buried, in order that He might gather to Himself a church of both peoples."

The plural number ViTDD is referred by R. to the many deaths of the people; but others explain it of high places, where sepulchres were erected. It is too slight a circumstance to give weight to his inter- pretation, which refers the prophecy to the entire people. L. " lie let His grave be made with the wicked and with the (godless) rich at his death/'

H. P. "He shall see his seed." He shall prolong his days. "In reward for Ills offering, He shall see churches arise throughout the entire world, and He will be gratified with their faith." St. Jerome.

R. approves this version. " 8ince the Apostle became as a man without the law to these that were without the law (although he was not without the law, being in the law of Christ), why should not Christ also be oounted with the wicked, that He might redeem them from sin, and become all to all to save all?" St. Jerome.

Luke 23 : 34. M Such was Ilis clemency, that He prayed on the cross for transgressors, yea for His persecutors, saying: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." St. Jerome.