of correction, but from that of retribution only. Thus, _e.g._, in Prov. xv. 10: "Bad _chastisement_ shall be to those that forsake the way, and he that hateth chastisement shall die," on which _Michaelis_ remarks: "_In antanaclasi ad correptionem amicam et paternum, mortem et mala quaelibet inferens, in ira_," Ps. vi. 2. Of destructive punishment, too, the verb is used in Jer. ii. 19. But one does not at all see how the idea of "setting right" should be suitable here; for surely, as regards the Servant of God himself, the absolutely Righteous, the suffering here has the character of chastisement. It is not the mere suffering, but the chastisement, which is upon Him; but that necessarily requires that the punishment should proceed from the principle of _retribution_, and that the Servant of God stands forth as our Substitute.--נרפא, Preter. Niph., hence "healing has been bestowed upon us;"--רפא with ל, in the signification "to bring healing," occurs also in chap. vi. 10, but nowhere else. The healing is an individualising designation of deliverance from the punishments of sin, called forth by the [Pg 286] circumstance that disease occupied so prominent a place among them, and had therefore been so prominently brought forward in what precedes. In harmony with the Apostolic quotation, the expression clearly shows that the punitive sufferings were already lying upon the persons speaking; that by the Substitute they were not by any means delivered from the future evils, but that the punishment, the inseparable companion of sin, already existed, and was taken away by Him. Ver. 6. "_All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath made the iniquities of us all to fall upon Him._"