The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

conveys the infinite potentiality of relief, whatever
misery have fallen on us, or whatever care or
sorrow oppress us. He must be blind, indeed, who
sees not in this Physician the Divine Healer; in this
Christ the Light of the World ; the Restorer of what
sin had blighted ; the Joy in our world's deep
sorrow. Never was prophecy more truly fulfilled
than, on that evening, this of Isaiah: * Himself took
our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.' ^ By His
Incarnation and Coming, by His taking 11,, un our
infirmities, and bearing our sicknesses—for this in
the truest and widest sense is the meaning of the
Incarnation of the Christ—did He become the
Healer, the Consoler of humanity, its Saviour in all
ills of time, and from all ills of eternity. The most
real fulfilment this, that can be conceived, of
Isaiah's rapt vision of Who and what the Messiah
was to be, and to do; not, indeed, what is
sometimes called fulfilment, or expected as such,
in a literal and verbal correspondence with the
prediction. An utterly mechanical, external, and
unspiritual view this of prophecy, in which, in
quite Jewish literalism, the spirit is crushed by the