Isaiah 53:12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong… "I shall never forget," wrote Miss Plumptre to a friend, "the day of the sadness and the gladness of my heart, the day when a chafed and disappointed spirit found healing and rest in One whom I had done my utmost to be independent of. The joy of the astronomer over his newly-discovered planet is nothing to the rapture with which I gazed upon the word transgressors in the last sentence of Isaiah 53:12; 'He made intercession for the transgressors.' I well remember being so dazzled that for a time I thought it a delusion, a misprint. It was something so altogether new to my proud, hard-working spirit, that I could almost wonder that I did not erase it and put in 'the penitent' or 'the humble' or one of nature's proud epithets. Yes, I think that word 'transgressors' was the first that ever glowed on me with all the attraction of 'free grace.'". Parallel Verses KJV: Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. |
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