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    I may remark, then, that our rabbis with one voice accept and affirm
the opinion that the prophet here is speaking of the King Messiah,
and we shall ourselves also adhere to the same view. . . 
     Our rabbis say that of all the suffering which entered the world, one
third was for David and the fathers, one third for the generation in exile,
 and one third for the King Messiah. . . 
   "he carried our sicknesses'--[this shows] that he was ready to carry
them of his own accord.
      We, however, thought that he was not bearing them of his own accord,
but that he was 'stricken and smitten of God', by a judgement of
retaliation
for his own sins, and not out of love. Yet it was because "he was wounded
for our transgressions" that he was "broken by sickness", and because he
was "bruised for our iniquities" that he became "a man of pains". . . He
was wounded and bruised for our iniquities had the negative effect of
rescuing us from our punishment; in order for us to enjoy positive peace
and prosperity, further sufferings were needed, and these consisted in his
being 'afflicted' with poverty. For while the direct consequences of our
sins had been averted by his sickness and stripes, something still
was needed in order to confer peace upon us. . . 
     But we see now the mercy of God" after we had individually gone
astray, He might have been expected to punish us individually likewise;
yet the Lord did not look to this, but counted us as one man, reckoning
up 'the iniquity of us all' together, and causing it to light on this Just
One, who was accordingly sufficient to bear the whole of it. . .