the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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1 Peter 2:24
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his own self: Exodus 28:38, Leviticus 16:22, Leviticus 22:9, Numbers 18:22, Psalms 38:4, Isaiah 53:4-6, Isaiah 53:11, Matthew 8:17, John 1:29, Hebrews 9:28
on: or, to
the tree: Deuteronomy 21:22, Deuteronomy 21:23, Acts 5:30, Acts 10:39, Acts 13:29, Galatians 3:13
being: 1 Peter 4:1, 1 Peter 4:2, Romans 6:2, Romans 6:7, Romans 6:11, Romans 7:6, *marg. Colossians 2:20, Colossians 3:3, *Gr: 2 Corinthians 6:17, Hebrews 7:26
live: Matthew 5:20, Luke 1:74, Luke 1:75, Acts 10:35, Romans 6:11, Romans 6:16, Romans 6:22, Ephesians 5:9, Philippians 1:11, 1 John 2:29, 1 John 3:7
by: Isaiah 53:5, Isaiah 53:6, Matthew 27:26, Mark 15:15, John 19:1
healed: Psalms 147:3, Malachi 4:2, Luke 4:18, Revelation 22:2
Reciprocal: Genesis 22:6 - laid it Genesis 22:9 - bound Leviticus 3:8 - he shall Leviticus 3:13 - lay his hand Leviticus 4:32 - a lamb Leviticus 4:34 - the horns of the altar Leviticus 4:35 - and the priest shall make Leviticus 5:1 - bear Leviticus 7:18 - bear Leviticus 9:3 - Take ye Leviticus 10:17 - to bear Leviticus 16:17 - no man Leviticus 17:16 - General Leviticus 22:16 - General Numbers 7:15 - General Numbers 15:31 - his iniquity Numbers 18:1 - shall bear Numbers 28:30 - General Deuteronomy 25:2 - General Judges 14:14 - Out of the eater 2 Samuel 24:17 - let thine Psalms 69:4 - then I Psalms 88:7 - Thy wrath Isaiah 53:10 - when thou shalt make his soul Jeremiah 30:13 - hast Jeremiah 30:17 - For I Ezekiel 4:4 - thou shalt bear Ezekiel 18:20 - bear Ezekiel 45:17 - he shall prepare Daniel 9:26 - Messiah Zechariah 13:7 - smite Matthew 20:28 - and to Matthew 26:38 - My Mark 15:24 - crucified Luke 16:22 - the rich Luke 22:19 - given Luke 23:33 - they crucified John 10:11 - giveth John 10:15 - and I John 11:51 - that Jesus John 12:32 - if Acts 16:22 - the magistrates Romans 4:8 - to whom Romans 4:25 - Who was Romans 6:13 - alive Romans 7:4 - the body Romans 8:3 - condemned 1 Corinthians 13:7 - Beareth 1 Corinthians 15:3 - Christ Galatians 1:4 - gave Galatians 2:16 - we have Galatians 2:19 - dead Galatians 6:2 - Bear Ephesians 1:7 - whom Philippians 2:8 - the death 1 Thessalonians 5:10 - died 1 Timothy 2:6 - gave Hebrews 9:14 - offered Hebrews 9:26 - he appeared Hebrews 12:2 - endured 1 Peter 2:21 - because 1 John 3:5 - to 1 John 3:16 - perceive 1 John 4:10 - and sent
Cross-References
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts.
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts.
The heauens also & the earth were finisshed, & all the hoast of them.
So the earth, the sky, and everything in them were finished.
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
Therfor heuenes and erthe ben maad perfit, and al the ournement of tho.
Thus the heauens and the earth were finished, and all the hoste of them.
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Who his own self bare our sins,.... As was typified by the high priest bearing the sins of the holy things of the people of Israel, when he went into the most holy place, and by the scape goat bearing the iniquities of all the people unto a land not inhabited, and as was foretold by the Prophet Isaiah. The apostle here explains the nature and end of Christ's sufferings, which were to make atonement for sins, and which was done by bearing them. What Christ bore were "sins", even all sorts of sin, original and actual, and every act of sin of his people; and all that is in sin, all that belongs to it, arises from it, and is the demerit of it, as both filth, guilt, and punishment; and a multitude of sins did he bear, even all the iniquities of all the elect; and a prodigious load and weight it was; and than which nothing could be more nauseous and disagreeable to him, who loves righteousness, and hates iniquity: and these sins he bore were not his own, nor the sins of angels, but of men; and not of all men, yet of many, even as many as were ordained to eternal life, for whom Christ gave his life a ransom, whom he justifies and brings to glory; our sins, not the sins of the Jews only, for Peter was a Jew, and so were those to whom he writes, but of the Gentiles also, even the sins of all his people, for them he saves from their sins, being stricken for them. His "bearing" them was in this manner: he becoming the surety and substitute of his people, their sins were laid upon him by his Father, that is, they were imputed to him, they were reckoned as his, and placed to his account; and Christ voluntarily took them upon himself; he took them to himself, as one may take the debt of another, and make himself answerable for it; or as a man takes up a burden, and lays it on his shoulders; so Christ took up our sins, and "carried" them "up", as the word here used signifies, alluding to the priests carrying up the sacrifice to the altar, and referring to the lifting up of Christ upon the cross; whither he carried the sins of his people, and bore them, and did not sink under the weight of them, being the mighty God, and the man of God's right hand, made strong for himself; and so made entire satisfaction for them, by enduring the wrath of God, the curse of the law, and all that punishment which was due unto them; and thereby bore them away, both from his people, and out of the sight of God, and his vindictive justice; and removed them as far as the east is from the west, and made a full end of them; and this he himself did, and not another, nor by another, or with the help of another; not by the means of a goat, as the high priest, but by himself; though he was assisted in bearing his cross, yet he had no help in bearing our sins; angels could not help him; his Father stood at a distance from him; there was none to help; his own arm brought salvation to him; but
his own self, who knew no sin, nor did any, he by himself purged away our sins, and made reconciliation for them, by bearing them: and which he did
in his own body, and not another's; in that body which his Father prepared for him, and which he took of the virgin, and was free from sin; though not to the exclusion of his soul, which also was made an offering for sin, and in which he endured great pains and sorrows for sin: and all this
on the tree; the accursed tree, the cross; which is expressive both of the shame and pain of his sufferings and death. The end of which was,
that we being dead to sin; "to our sins", as the Alexandrian copy, and the Ethiopic version read; as all the elect are, through bearing their sins, and suffering death for them, so as that sin shall not be imputed to them; it is as though it never was; it is dead to them, and they to that, as to its damning power and influence; so as that they are entirely discharged from it, and can never come into condemnation on account of it, and can never be hurt, so as to be destroyed by it; nor by death, either corporeal or eternal, since the sting of death, which is sin, is taken away, and the strength of sin, which is the law, is dead to them, and they to that: in short, through the death of Christ they are so dead to sin, that it is not only finished, made an end of, and put away, but the body of it is destroyed, that it should not be served; which is an end subordinate to the former, and expressed in the next clause:
should live unto righteousness; live, and not die the second death, and live by faith on the righteousness of Christ, for justification of life, and soberly, righteously, and godly in this present evil world; which the grace of God teaches, and the love of Christ in bearing sin constrains to, and the redemption by his precious blood lays under an obligation to do; for those whose sins Christ has bore are not their own, but being bought with the price of his blood, they are bound to live to him who has a property in them, and a right to claim all obedience from them:
by whose stripes ye were healed; the passage referred to is in
Isaiah 53:5 which is a prophecy of the Messiah, as is acknowledged by the Jews g, who say h,
"this is the King Messiah, who was in the generation of the ungodly, as it is said, Isaiah 53:5 "and with his stripes we are healed"; and for this cause God saved him, that he might save Israel, and rejoice with them in the resurrection of the dead.''
Sin is a disease, a natural and hereditary one, an epidemic distemper, that reaches to all men, and to all the powers and faculties of their souls, and members of their bodies; and which is nauseous and loathsome, and in itself mortal and incurable; nor can it be healed by any creature, or anything that a creature can do. Christ is the only physician, and his blood the balm and sovereign medicine; this cleanses from all sin; through it is the remission of sin, which is meant by healing; for healing of diseases, and forgiving iniquities, is one and the same thing; see
Psalms 103:3 on which latter text a learned Jew i has this note,
"this interpreters explain לשון סליחה, "as expressive of forgiveness";''
and the Jews say, there is no healing of diseases but it signifies forgiveness k: it is an uncommon way of healing by the stripes of another. Some think the apostle alludes to the stripes which servants receive from their masters, to whom he was now speaking; and in order to encourage them to bear them patiently, observes, that Christ himself suffered stripes, and that they had healing for their diseases and wounds, by means of his stripes, or through his being wounded and bruised for them.
g Zohar in Exod. fol. 85. 2. Midrash Ruth, fol. 33. 2. Yalkut Simeoni, par. 2. fol. 53. 3. & 90. 1. h R. Moses Haddarsan apud Galatin. de Areanis Cathol. Verit. l. 6. c. 2. i R. Sol. Urbin Ohel Moed, fol. 64. 1. k Yalkut Simeoni, par. 2. fol. 43. 1.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Who his own self - See the notes at Hebrews 1:3, on the phrase “when he had by himself purged our sins.” The meaning is, that he did it in his own proper person; he did not make expiation by offering a bloody victim, but was himself the sacrifice.
Bare our sins - There is an allusion here undoubtedly to Isaiah 53:4, Isaiah 53:12. See the meaning of the phrase “to bear sins” fully considered in the notes at those places. As this cannot mean that Christ so took upon himself the sins of people as to become himself a sinner, it must mean that he put himself in the place of sinners, and bore that which those sins deserved; that is, that he endured in his own person that which, if it had been inflicted on the sinner himself, would have been a proper expression of the divine displeasure against sin, or would have been a proper punishment for sin. See the notes at 2 Corinthians 5:21. He was treated as if he had been a sinner, in order that we might be treated as if we had not sinned; that is, as if we were righteous. There is no other way in which we can conceive that one bears the sins of another. They cannot be literally transferred to another; and all that can be meant is, that he should take the consequences on himself, and suffer as if he had committed the transgressions himself.
(See also the supplementary notes at 2 Corinthians 5:21; Romans 4:0; Romans 5:0; and Galatians 3:13, in which the subject of imputation is discussed at large)
In his own body - This alludes undoubtedly to his sufferings. The sufferings which he endured on the cross were such as if he had been guilty; that is, he was treated as he would have been if he had been a sinner. He was treated as a criminal; crucified as those most guilty were; endured the same kind of physical pain that the guilty do who are punished for their own sins; and passed through mental sorrows strongly resembling - as much so as the case admitted of - what the guilty themselves experience when they are left to distressing anguish of mind, and are abandoned by God. The sufferings of the Saviour were in all respects made as nearly like the sufferings of the most guilty, as the sufferings of a perfectly innocent being could be.
On the tree - Margin, “to the tree” Greek, ἐπὶ τὸ ξύλον epi to xulon. The meaning is rather, as in the text, that while himself on the cross, he bore the sorrows which our sins deserved. It does not mean that he conveyed our sorrows there, but that while there he suffered under the intolerable burden, and was by that burden crushed in death. The phrase “on the tree,” literally “on the wood,” means the cross. The same Greek word is used in Acts 5:30; Acts 10:39; Acts 13:29; Galatians 3:13, as applicable to the cross, in all of which places it is rendered “tree.”
That we, being dead to sins - In virtue of his having thus been suspended on a cross; that is, his being put to death as an atoning sacrifice was the means by which we become dead to sin, and live to God. The phrase “being dead to sins” is, in the original, ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις ἀπογενόμενοι tais hamartiais apogenomenoi - literally, “to be absent from sins.” The Greek word was probably used (by an euphemism) to denote to die, that is, to be absent from the world. This is a milder and less repulsive word than to say to die. It is not elsewhere used in the New Testament. The meaning is, that we being effectually separated from sin - that is, being so that it no longer influences us - should live unto God. We are to be, in regard to sin, as if we were dead; and it is to have no more influence over us than if we were in our graves. See the notes at Romans 6:2-7. The means by which this is brought about is the death of Christ (See the notes at Romans 6:8) for as he died literally on the cross on account of our sins, the effect has been to lead us to see the evil of transgression, and to lead new, and holy lives.
Should live unto righteousness - Though dead in respect to sin, yet we have real life in another respect. We are made alive unto God to righteousness, to true holiness. See the Romans 6:11 note; Galatians 2:20 note.
By whose stripes - This is taken from Isaiah 53:5. See it explained in the notes on that verse. The word rendered “stripes” (μώλωπι mōlōpi) means, properly, the livid and swollen mark of a blow; the mark designated by us when we use the expression “black and blue.” It is not properly a bloody wound, but that made by pinching, beating, scourging. The idea seems to be that the Saviour was scourged or whipped; and that the effect on us is the same in producing spiritual healing, or in recovering us from our faults, as if we had been scourged ourselves. By faith we see the bruises inflicted on him, the black and blue spots made by beating; we remember that they were on account of our sins, and not for his; and the effect in reclaiming us is the same as if they had been inflicted on us.
Ye were healed - Sin is often spoken of as a disease, and redemption from it as a restoration from a deadly malady. See this explained in the notes at Isaiah 53:5.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 24. Who his own self — Not another in his place, as some anciently supposed, because they thought it impossible that the Christ should suffer.
Bare our sins in his own body — Bore the punishment due to our sins. In no other sense could Christ bear them. To say that they were so imputed to him as if they had been his own, and that the Father beheld him as blackened with imputed sin, is monstrous, if not blasphemous.
That we, being dead to sins — Ἱνα ταις ἁμαρτιαις απογενομενοι· That we, being freed from sin-delivered out of its power, and from under its tyranny.
Should live unto righteousness — That righteousness should be our master now, as sin was before. He is speaking still lo servants who were under an oppressive yoke, and were cruelly used by their masters, scourged, buffeted, and variously maltreated.
By whose stripes ye were healed. — The apostle refers here to Isaiah 53:4-6; and he still keeps the case of these persecuted servants in view, and encourages them to suffer patiently by the example of Christ, who was buffeted and scourged, and who bore all this that the deep and inveterate wounds, inflicted on their souls by sin, might be healed.
