He was afflicted... — More accurately, He let himself be afflicted, as implying the voluntary acceptance of the suffering.
Opened not his mouth. — The silence of absolute acquiescence, as in Psalms 38:14; Psalms 39:9.
As a lamb to the slaughter. — It is suggestive, as bearing both on the question of authorship, and that of partial fulfilment, that Jeremiah (Jeremiah 11:19) appropriates the description to himself. In our Lord’s silence before the Sanhedrin and Pilate it is allowable to trace a conscious fulfilment of Isaiah’s words (Matthew 26:62; Matthew 27:14). (Comp. 1 Peter 2:23.)