For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, [there is] no beauty that we should desire him.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Il s'est élevé devant lui comme une faible plante, Comme un rejeton qui sort d'une terre desséchée; Il n'avait ni beauté, ni éclat pour attirer nos regards, Et son aspect n'avait rien pour nous plaire.
KJV
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, [there is] no beauty that we should desire him.
Eusebius of Caesarea
Historia Ecclesiastica
πηγῆς τοῦ ὕδατος τῆς ζωῆς τοῦ ἐξιόντος ἐκ τῆς νηδύος τοῦ Χριστοῦ δροσιζόμενος καὶ ἐνδυναμούμενος· τὸ Is 53, 2. 5 δὲ σωμάτιον μάρτυς ἢν τῶν συμβεβηκότων , ὅλον τραῦμα καὶ μώλωφ καὶ συνεσταμένον καὶ ἀποβεβληκὸς τὴν ἀνθρώπειον ἔξωθεν μορφήν, ἐν ᾧ πάσχων Χριστὸς μεγάλας ἐπετέλει δόξα…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
in many ways. First, because by these infirmities men were kept back from knowing Him, according to Is. 53:2,3 : "[There was no sightliness] that we should be desirous of Him. Despised and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with infirmity, and His look was, a…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 89 (Migne)
eum, et non erat aspectus, et quasi absconditus vultus ejus et despectus, unde nec reputavimus eum (Isa. LIII, 2) . Dicere quin potius debueras: Domine, accelera tempus quo cuncta quae de te scripta sunt compleantur, et sic in gloriam tuam transiens, ostende mihi, non qualis nunc…
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