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'" THE SUFFERING SERVANT
' International Sunday School Leeson
tot November 13, 1949
- Memory Selection: "Surely he hath
borne our griefs, and carried our sor
rows." Isaiah 63: 4. . . ,;
Lesson Text: .Isaiah 53r 1-12 .
Our lesson ia based on a portion of
" the Old Testament which Ls very of
ten quoted and applied, to Jesus hjm
self., It included1 the passage, the en-
,'auch asked Philip to interpret to him
; years later, upon which occasion Fhil-
' There is difference of opinion be
j tweflii the conservative and radical in-
inrnrT.pra as m wnpn tnia T)flAH.w
was written.1. The,, former attribute it
i to Isaiah near the close of his life,
about 685 B. C, while the latter as
cribe it to. a prophet who lived a cen
tury and a half ' or two centuries la-
ter. If the latter assumption is
:' correct, it Tas written while the Jews
were in exfle near Babylon.
Ancient peoples very often identi
fied th power of their gods with their
own prosperity .and success. Judah
hadmet'witjh great reverses, and yet,
notwithstanding, we find the prophet
still proclaiming the supremacy and
" omnipotence of Jehovah and ac-
knowledging'ths supremacy of Jeho
vah over all nations. '1 This fact so
impressed . Foakes Jackson that he
, ' considered it strong proof that the
f , true God hadrevealed himself to his
t people, saying: ?"It is absolutely un-
thinkable that a mere tribal god
s'- should have been spontaneously rais
1 1: ed to the rank of a ruler of the Uni
verse by a nation when it had touched
, .; the nadir of its degradation, whose
(" holy city had been destroyed, whose
sanctuary had been ruined."
'' The prophet viewed the sufferings
of Judah as penalty for transgres-
. RirmK inn svniunpii r.nem ns neaiimMi
to correct and save the chosen people
' so tnat tney mignt become agents to
if redeem the world.
The last three verses of Chapter
".i. Fifty-two describes the exaltation of
the servant of God. The first three
verses of Chapter Fifty-three describe
him as a man 'of sorrows, who was
misunderstood and despised. The next
v three verses picture the vicarious uf
" feririg 'of theservant, misunderstood
Li ka 1I MnHAw.nnUMm AS lf MXTYt
. turn vunvcuipuiirew no iut .no unn
v sin, but, finally, recognized as bear-
ing the sin of all. .
The next three verses relate the
r continued sorrow and final death of
, the servant, an innocent martyr at the
hands, of oppression and false judge
; ment. The final i three verses given
for our study picture the . eventual
- triumph and glory of the servant and
r his recognition of the purpose involved
. 1 in the process and Ws own satisfaction
' with it For that, the reward shall
- be great.
To illustrate the application of this
i passage to Jesus, we quote Rev. Hugh
:" '.!.' McMillan on that part of verse two
which refers to him "as the root out of
, .a dry ground:" "Antecedently, Judea
' would have never been singled out as
the birthplace of the great Benefact
,5. or of mankind. ' Long years of for
mality in religion, anarchy in govern
- ' ment and corruption in bribery in the
. administration of law, had exhausted
all the good qualities of the people,
drained their virtues dry and left be
hind a miserable sediment of mean
ness and hypocrisy. They Were pro
verbial for their moroseness and'
'i v avarice; they 'were contracted in all
' their views, and bigoted and fanatical
ih iheir maintenance of them. That
from such a-worldly, hypocritical and
exclusive people, the Saviour of man-
kind could spring by the natural laws
'r of generation, is simply .impossible.
And, most convincing proofs that the
scheme of salvation is divine." ,
, ''Practically i all scholars agree,"
" ay3 'Charles C. Albertson, "that
Isaiah's picture of "a solitary sufferer,
purchasing- redemption for many, has
its only counterpart in Jesus Christ.
We do not use terms loosely when we
' say this is his' portrait. It is true
he was not the only man in history
' ttf e despised and rejected.- There
have been inumerable men and wo
; men of sorrows and acquainted with
grief; myriads have been oppressed
and afflicted; not a few have made in-
cession for" transgressors; but of One
and One alone can it truly, be said
; that he. bare the sin of many, and that
' 'Jehovah Jiath laid on mm the iniquity
of us alk" ' . ' " ' " !
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time, when great-grandmother was young, the girls
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cloth, and many of the simple garments of those days
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