Isaiah 53:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

He was taken from prison, &c.— "And yet the indignities of his sufferings were enough to shock his patience, especially their taking away his life, under colour of law and justice, and a fair trial. Who that saw him in these sad circumstances, so evil treated by them, would have supposed him to be the promised Messiah, whom the Jews had so impatiently expected, of David's line, when they saw him cut off out of the land of the living, by those whom he came to save? For I cannot too often repeat it, it was for the sins of my people, not his own, that he was stricken." The former clause may be rendered, He was taken up from distress, or taken off by authority and judgment; and who shall declare his duration? &c. Instead of duration, Bishop Chandler reads lineage; and he observes, that עצר otzer, here translated prison, signifies any convention, or assembly of men, Jeremiah 9:2 and thence is applied to any legal session of magistrates or single authority, as Judges 18:7. 1 Samuel 9:17.