tution (compare my Book: _Die Opfer der Heil. Schrift_, Berlin
1852). This antetypical sacrifice will be offered up by the true
High-Priest. For the sins of the human race which [Pg 302] without
compensation, cannot be forgiven, He furnishes the restitution which
could not be paid by the sinners, and thereby works out the
justification of the sinner before God.--To the trespass-offering here,
all those passages of the New Testament point, in which Christ is
spoken of as the sacrifice for our sins, especially 2 Cor. v. 21, where
the apostle says that God made Christ to be [Greek: hamartia] for us,
that in Him we might be made righteous before God; Rom. viii. 3,
according to which God sent Christ [Greek: peri hamartias], as a
sin-offering; Rom. iii. 25, where Christ is called [Greek:
hilasterion], propitiation; 1 John ii. 2: [Greek: kai autos hilasmos
esti peri ton hamartion hemon], iv. 10; Heb. ix. 14.--The [Hebrew: aM]
at the beginning must not be explained by "_as_" a signification,
which it never has; it has its ordinary signification "when," and the
Future is to be understood as a real Future: the offering of the
trespass-offering is the _condition_ of His seeing, &c., and, according
to the context, indeed, the absolutely _necessary_ condition. The
translation: "Even if" could proceed from one only who had not
understood this context. It is not death in general, but sacrificial
death, which is specially spoken of; and to such a death, which is a
necessary foundation of the glorification, and especially the
foundation of "He shall see seed," "when" only is suitable, and not
"even if."--In the words: "He shall see seed, prolong His days," that
is, in a higher sense, promised to this Servant of God, which, under
the Old Testament, was considered as a distinguished divine blessing.
The spiritual interpretation has the less difficulty, that it must
necessarily be granted in the case of [Hebrew: awM], immediately
preceding. Just in the same relation in which the sin-offering of the
Servant of God stands to the sin-offering of the bullocks and goats,
does His posterity, the length of His days, stand to the ordinary
posterity and length of days. The _seed_ of the Servant of God,
identical with His generation, in ver. 8, are just those for whom,
according to the words immediately preceding, He offers His soul as a
trespass-offering--the many who, according to ver. 12, are assigned to
Him as His portion; who, according to chap.