This passage teaches that Christ’s sufferings were not by chance, nor were they merely the result of human wickedness, but rather they were ordained by the eternal counsel of God. It was not due to any fault in Christ Himself that He was bruised, but because He took upon Himself our sins, becoming a willing sacrifice for our redemption. When Isaiah says that ‘it pleased the Lord to bruise Him,’ he does not mean that God took delight in the […]