Saturday, November 5, 2011

Impinging Upon Christ

I have been considering Isaiah 53:7.

When I was reading it, today, I noticed that I have been reading it wrong; more specifically the line where it says: "The Lord hath laid on Him the iniquities of us all." I realized, tonight, that the literal translation of it actually says: "The Lord hath caused to land on Him the iniquities of us all." I had always read the word 'laid' as an almost passive thing - like the Lord was simply handing our iniquities to Christ.

Naturally, my curiosity was piqued, and come to find out the Hebrew word is actually more aggressive - meaning that God impinged them upon Christ: "by accident or violence, or by importunity." Since we know that there are no accidents with God, that leaves us with a 'violent' - even solicitous - encouragement for Christ to intercede. I find that... humbling... and I wish I could hear a sermon about it!
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