Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Yet. 24. Who his own self] Without any to help or uphold him, Isaiah 63:5; he had not so much as the benefit of the sunlight, when in that three hours' darkness he was set upon by all the powers of darkness.
Bare our sins] Gr. ανηνεγκεν, bare them aloft, viz. when he climbed up his cross, and nailed them thereunto. "Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows," Isaiah 53:4. He "taketh away the sins of the world," John 1:29 .
That we being dead to sins] απογενομενοι, or, separated from sin, or uumade to it, cut off from it, the old frame being utterly dissolved.
By whose stripes] Or, welts. This he mentioneth to comfort poor servants, whipped and abused by their froward masters. Sanguis medici factus est medicina phrenetici. The physician's blood became the sick man's salve. We can hardly believe the power of sword salve. But here is a mystery that only Christian religion cau assure us of, that the wounding of one should be the cure of another.