Therefore will I Namely, God the Father; divide him a portion This word portion (though there is nothing for it in the Hebrew)
is properly supplied out of the next clause, where a word, which answers to it, rendered the spoil, is expressed; with the great Or, among the great such as the great and mighty potentates of the world use to have after a short combat and a glorious victory. Though he be a very mean and obscure person, as to his outward condition in the world, yet he shall attain to a greater pitch of glory than the greatest monarchs enjoy. He shall divide the spoil with the strong The same thing repeated in other words. The sense of both clauses is, I will give him great and happy success in his undertaking: he shall conquer all his enemies, and lead captivity captive; and he shall set up and establish his kingdom among and over all the kingdoms of the world: see Ephesians 1:20, &c.; and Philippians 2:8-9. Because he hath poured out his soul unto death Because he willingly laid down his life in obedience to God's command, and in order to the redemption of mankind. And he was numbered with the transgressors He was willing, for God's glory, and for man's salvation, to be reproached and punished, like a malefactor, in the same manner and place with them, and between two of them, Mark 15:27-28. And made intercession for the transgressors He prayed upon earth for all sinners, and particularly for those that crucified him, and in heaven he still intercedes for them, by a legal demand of those good things which he purchased by the sacrifice of himself, which, though past, he continually represents to his Father as if it were present.