Isaiah Chapter 52 verse 14 Holy Bible
Like as many were astonished at thee (his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men),
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As peoples were surprised at him, And his face was not beautiful, so as to be desired: his face was so changed by disease as to be unlike that of a man, and his form was no longer that of the sons of men.
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As many were astonished at thee -- his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the children of men
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As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
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Like as many were astonished at you (his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men),
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As astonished at thee have been many, (So marred by man his appearance, And his form by sons of men.)
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - As many were astonied at thee. The world was "astonied" to see, in One come to deliver it, no outward show of grandeur or magnificence, no special beauty or "comeliness" (Isaiah 53:2), but a Presence unattractive to the mass of men at all times, and in the end so cruelly marred and disfigured as to retain scarcely any resemblance to the ordinary form and face of man. The prophet, as Delitzsch says, sits at the foot of the cross on Calvary, and sees the Redeemer as he hung upon the accursed tree, after he had been buffeted, and crowned with thorns, and smitten, and scourged, and crucified, when his face was covered with bruises and with gore, and his frame and features distorted with agony.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) As many were astonied . . .--The words point to the correspondence of the supreme exaltation following on the supreme humiliation.His visage was so marred . . .--The words conflict strangely with the type of pure and holy beauty with which Christian art has made us familiar as its ideal of the Son of Man. It has to be noted, however, that the earlier forms of that art, prior to the time of Constantine, and, in some cases, later, represented the Christ as worn, emaciated, with hardly any touch of earthly comeliness, and that it is at least possible that the beauty may have been of expression rather than of feature or complexion, and that men have said of Him, as of St. Paul, that his "bodily presence was weak" (2Corinthians 10:10).