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title: "The Church Pulpit Commentary -  Isaiah 53"
description: "THE MAN OF SORROWS ‘A Man of sorrows.’  Isaiah 53:3  I. His own personal life was a sorrowful one.—He was away from home, from His Father’s presence. He"
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*THE MAN OF SORROWS*
**‘A Man of sorrows.’**
** [Isaiah 53:3](../../../kjv/isaiah/53/3)**
****I. His own personal life was a sorrowful one.**—He was away from home, from His Father’s presence. He was a Stranger in a strange land. From His childhood He was full of thoughts which He could not utter, because, if uttered, they were not understood. He was a lonely Man. His sympathy with others by no means implied their sympathy with Him.
**II. But His sorrows, like His labours, were for others.**—(1) Jesus Christ sorrowed over bodily suffering; (2) He sorrowed over mental suffering; (3) He sorrowed over spiritual suffering.
**III. He was a Man of sorrows also, and chiefly, in relation to sin.**—(1) He had to see sin; (2) He had to bear sin.
**IV. The subject teaches** (1) that if it is as a Man of sorrows that Jesus Christ comes to us, it must be, first of all, as a memento of the fitness of sorrow to our condition as sinful men. (2) Again, only a Man of sorrows could be a Saviour for all men, and for the whole of life. (3) Sorrow, however deep, has its solaces and its compensations. (*a*) Whatever it be, it is of the nature of sorrow to bring a man nearer to truth, nearer to the reality, nearer therefore to hope. (*b*) Sorrow makes a man more useful. It gives him a new experience and a new sympathy.
—Dean Vaughan.

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