He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Il a été enlevé par l'angoisse et le châtiment; Et parmi ceux de sa génération, qui a cru Qu'il était retranché de la terre des vivants Et frappé pour les péchés de mon peuple?
KJV
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Eusebius of Caesarea
Historia Ecclesiastica
τοῦ καὶ φύσεως οὔτις ἂν εἰς ἔκφρασιν αὐτάρκης γένοιτο λόγος, ἧ καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ θεῖον ἐν προφητείαις Is. 53, 8 Matt. 11, 27 “τὴν γενεὰν αὐτοῦ’’ φησὶν “ τίς διηγήσεται; ὅτι δὴ οὔτε τὸν πατέρα τις ἔγνω, εἰ μὴ ὁ υἱός, οὔτ’ αὖ τὸν υἱόν τις ἔγνω ποτὲ κατ’ ἀξίαν, εἰ μὴ μόνος ὁ γεννήσας…
Hilary of Poitiers
Book on the Synods or the Faith of the Easterners
n anyone explain the birth of the Son, about whom it is written, "Who will declare His generation?" (Isaiah 53:8). It is clear that only the Father knows how He begot His Son, and the Son, how He was begotten by the Father. There is no ambiguity that the Father is greater. No one…
S. Paschatius Radbertus
On the Birth of the Virgin
law of birth, let them consider what divine power accomplishes: "Who shall declare His generation?" (Isaiah 53:8). For "who" here is taken as impossible, because no saint, not to mention divinity, can fully describe His human generation, though all should believe in both. From th…
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