earnest reader to test, to use and to enjoy as grace may be given. In the first place, we

noted the passage opens with the words, "Behold My Servant" (Isa. 52: 13) and we

remembered that after the record is given of His substitutionary sufferings, this blessed

Servant is again brought before us.

A moment's meditation brought another feature to light. The Hebrew word translated

"To bear" is Nasa and means primarily "To lift up". The word "extolled" is also a

translation of Nasa. Concerning these and other Hebrew words we do not offer any

explanation, we are but noting the beginnings of the structural arrangement of material,

and record our first note.

We now observe that nations and kings are referred to in 52: 15, and we read of them

being astonished at something totally unexpected.  We find something equally

unexpected after the sorrow, the humiliation and the meekness in Isa. 53: 4-10 Division

of the Spoil with the Great and the Strong, Isa. 53: 12. These features however we kept

in reserve, while examining the remaining verses. We knew that the words "The Lord

hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all" (53: 6), and "He made intercession for the

transgressors" (Isa. 53: 12) employed the same Hebrew word paga, and this is noted in

the first volume of the Berean Expositor in an article entitled "Wondrous meeting

places", where these passages are retranslated:

We have now two focal pairs of correspondences.

We observed that both the sinner and the Saviour are likened to "sheep" which,

together with the most evident emphasis upon His sufferings for the people, filled the

remainder of the space with the wonder of His "Substitutionary sufferings". Returning to

52: 14, 15 and 53: 1-3 we discovered that the word "Visage" and the word "Beauty"

were translations of the same Hebrew word, as also are the two words "Heard" (52: 15)

and "Report" (53: 1). We therefore set before the reader and commend to his prayerful

study and service the following structure of this glorious passage.