For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 2. Plant. Hebrew also, “suckling child.” Septuagint and so forth—Ground. The blessed Virgin. Calmet.—Was. Septuagint “he had no appearance nor beauty. But his appearance was abject and deficient above all men; a,” and so forth—That we. Lit. “and we have desired him.” Notwithstanding his abject condition, He was the desired of all nations, and by his wounds we are healed. Bible.—Some assert that the person of Christ was not beautiful, while others think that his wounds prevented it from being discerned. Salmeron would supply a negation from the first number: “We have not desired him.”