Isaia 53:3

3 Disprezzato e abbandonato dagli uomini, uomo di dolore, familiare con il patire, pari a colui dinanzi al quale ciascuno si nasconde la faccia, era spregiato, e noi non ne facemmo stima alcuna.

Isaia 53:3 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 53:3

He is despised, and rejected of men
Or, "ceaseth from men" ^F6; was not admitted into the company and conversation of men, especially of figure; or ceased from the class of men, in the opinion of others; he was not reckoned among men, was accounted a worm, and no man; or, if a man, yet not in his senses, a madman, nay, one that had a devil: or "deficient of men"; he had none about him of any rank or figure in life, only some few fishermen, and some women, and publicans, and harlots. The Vulgate Latin version renders it, "the last of men", the most abject and contemptible of mankind; despised, because of the meanness of his birth, and parentage, and education, and of his outward appearance in public life; because of his apostles and audience; because of his doctrines, not agreeably to carnal reason, and his works, some of them being done on the sabbath day, and, as they maliciously suggested, by the help of Satan; and especially because of his ignominious sufferings and death: a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:
or "known by grief" ^F7; he was known by his troubles, notorious for them; these were his constant companions, his familiar acquaintance, with whom he was always conversant; his life was one continued series of sorrow, from the cradle to the cross; in his infancy his life was sought for by Herod, and he was obliged to be taken by his parents, and flee into Egypt; he ate his bread in sorrow, and with the sweat of his brow; he met with much sorrow from the hardness and unbelief of men's hearts, and from the contradiction of sinners against himself, and even much from the frowardness of his own disciples; much from the temptations of Satan, and more from the wrath and justice of God, as the surety of his people; he was exceeding sorrowful in the garden, when his sweat was as it were great drops of blood; and when on the cross, under the hidings of his Father's face, under a sense of divine displeasure for the sins of his people, and enduring the pains and agonies of a shameful and an accursed death; he was made up of sorrows, and grief was familiar to him. Some render it, "broken with infirmity", or "grief" ^F8: and we hid as it were our faces from him;
as one loathsome and abominable as having an aversion to him, and abhorrence of him, as scorning to look at him, being unworthy of any notice. Some render it, "he hid as it were his face from us" ^F9; as conscious of his deformity and loathsomeness, and of his being a disagreeable object, as they said; but the former is best: he was despised, and we esteemed him not;
which is repeated to show the great contempt cast upon him, and the disesteem he was had in by all sorts of persons; professors and profane, high and low, rich poor, rulers and common people, priests, Scribes, and Pharisees; no set or order of men had any value for him; and all this disgrace and dishonour he was to undergo, to repair the loss of honour the Lord sustained by the sin of man, whose surety Christ became.

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 (Myvya ldx) "desiit viris", Montanus, Heb.; "desitus virorum", Piscator; "deficiens virorum", Cocceius; "destitutus viris", Vitringa.
F7 (ylwx ewdyw) "notus aegritudine", Montanus; "notus infirmitate," Cocceius.
F8 "Attritus infirmitate"; so some in Vatablus, and R. Sol. Urbin. Ohel. Moed. fol. 96. 1.
F9 (wnmm Mynp rtomk) "velut homo abscondens faciem a nobis", Junius & Tremellius; "et tanquam aliquis qui obtegit faciem a nobis", Piscator; "ut res tecta facie averanda prae nobis", Cocceius.

Isaia 53:3 In-Context

1 Chi ha creduto a quel che noi abbiamo annunziato? e a chi è stato rivelato il braccio dell’Eterno?

2 Egli è venuto su dinanzi a lui come un rampollo, come una radice ch’esce da un arido suolo; non avea forma né bellezza da attirare i nostri sguardi, né apparenza, da farcelo desiderare.

3 Disprezzato e abbandonato dagli uomini, uomo di dolore, familiare con il patire, pari a colui dinanzi al quale ciascuno si nasconde la faccia, era spregiato, e noi non ne facemmo stima alcuna.

4 E, nondimeno, eran le nostre malattie ch’egli portava, erano i nostri dolori quelli di cui s’era caricato; e noi lo reputavamo colpito, battuto da Dio, ed umiliato!

5 Ma egli è stato trafitto a motivo delle nostre trasgressioni, fiaccato a motivo delle nostre iniquità; il castigo, per cui abbiam pace, è stato su lui, e per le sue lividure noi abbiamo avuto guarigione.