OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 53:8

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He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?

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Verse 8. Judgment, or by an unjust and cruel judgment. Bible.—Hebrew “from prison and judgment.” Calmet.—Septuagint “in humiliation, ( Bible.) or humility, his judgment was taken away,” or rescinded, by his glorious resurrection. S. Philip follows this version in explaining this passage to the eunuch. Acts 8:33.—Generation, from his eternal Father or from the Virgin, his incarnation, life, resurrection, or posterity in the Church. All these may be meant, and are inexplicable. Calmet.

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