speakers belong, the covenant-people, for whose benefit the atonement
and substitution of the Servant of God were, _in the first instance_,
intended (comp. [Greek: sosei ton laon hautou apo ton hamartion auton],
Matth. i. 21) yea, were, to a certain degree, exclusively intended,
inasmuch as the believing Gentiles were received into it as adopted
children. It is a forced expedient to say: every single individual of
the Gentiles, or of their princes, says that the Servant of God has
suffered for the sin of His people, hence also for His own. And just as
inadmissible is the supposition that a representative of the heathen
world is speaking; the whole heathen world cannot be designated as a
people.

Ver. 9. "_And they gave Him His grave with the wicked, and with a rich
in His death, because He had done no violence, neither was any deceit
in His mouth._"

[Hebrew: vitN] is intentionally without a definite Subject, _q.d._: it
was given to Him, _Ewald_ Sec. 273a. The acting subject could not be at
all more distinctly marked out, because there was a _double_ subject.
Men fixed for Him the ignominious grave with criminals; by the
providence of God, He received the honourable grave with a rich, and
that for the sake of His innocent sufferings, as a prelude to the
greater glorification which, as a reward, was to be bestowed upon Him,
as an example of what is said in ver. 12: "He shall divide spoil with
the strong." The _wicked_ who are buried apart from others, can be the
real criminals only, the transgressors in ver. 12. Criminals received,
among the Jews, an ignominious burial. Thus _Josephus_, Arch. iv. 8, Sec.
6, says: "He who has blasphemed God shall, after having been stoned, be
hung up for a day, and be buried quietly and without honour."
_Maimonides_ (see _Iken_ on this passage in the Biblia Hagana ii. 2)
says: "Those who have been executed by the court of justice are not by
any means buried in the graves of their ancestors; but there are two
graves appointed for them by the court of justice,--one for the stoned
and burnt; the other for the decapitated and strangled." Just as the
Prophet had, in the preceding verse, said that the Servant of God would
die a violent death like a criminal, so he says here, that they had
also fixed for Him a grave in common with executed criminals. _And with
a rich_ [Pg 294] (they gave Him His grave) _in His death_: they gave
Him His grave, first with the wicked; but, indeed, He received it