🚀 go-pugleaf

    "The expression, "My servant" is applied to the messiah as it is
applied to his ancestor in the verse, "I have sworn to David My servant"
(Psalm 89:4) . .  .
     By the words, "surely he has carried our sicknesses, " they mean
that the pains and sicknesses which he fell into were merited by them,
but that he bore them instead. They next words, "yet we did not esteem
him", intimate that they thought him afflicted by God for his own sins,
as they distinctly say, "smitten of God and afflicted."
     And here I think it is necessary to pause for a few moments, in
order to explain why God caused these sicknesses to attach themselves
to the Messiah for the sake of Israel. . .[Consider] Ezekiel when God
obliged him to sleep 390 days on his left side and 40 days on his right.
He carried on the fist ocassion the iniquity of Israel, and on the second
that of Judah. The nation deserved from God greater punishment than 
that which actually came upon them, but not being strong enough to
bear it. . . the prophet had to alleviate it.
    Inasmuch as at the end of the captivity there will be no prophet to
intercede at the time of distress, the time of the Lord's anger and of
his fury, God appoints his servant to carry their sins, and by doing so
lighten their punishment in order that Israel might not be completely
exterminated. Thus, from the words, "he was wounded for our
transgressions", we learn two things: first, that Israel had committed
many sins and transgressions, for which they deserved the indignation of
God; and second, that by the Messiah bearing them they would be 
delivered from the wrath which rested upon them, and be enabled to
endure it, as it is said, "And by associating with him we are healed."