“But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”
The healing through wounding—'All we like sheep have gone astray; we have all turned to our own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all'—uses pastoral imagery to depict Israel's sin and God's placement of judgment on the servant. The comparison to sheep suggests Israel's wandering and need for shepherd care. The statement that God 'laid on him the iniquity of us all' emphasizes divine agency in the atonement: God actively imposes Israel's sin on the servant. This verse consolidates the substitutionary theology by emphasizing both Israel's collective guilt and God's redemptive action.
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