| These study questions are designed to be answered using Unger's comments on Isaiah 52:13-53:12. Print this page and use to answer the following questions. They will help you to get a deeper understanding of this most remarkable chapter in all of Scripture. This study is a rich blessing; the ground we are standing on is "holy ground."
Isaiah 53 is the most detailed account anywhere on the first coming of Christ. Isaiah 24 is similarly the most detailed account of the second coming of Christ (i.e., the details just prior to His Return).
1. (52:13) What is the implication of the Servant’s exaltation occurring after his atoning death?
2. (53:1) Who does Unger say that the speaker in verses 1-10 is?
3. (53:1) What is the meaning of “Arm of the LORD”?
4. (53:2) What is the meaning of the passage “He grew up before Him like a tender shoot”?
5. (53:2) Explain the phrase “root out of parched ground”:
6. (53:4) Summarize Unger’s view of 53:4 and the issue of healing in the atonement:
7. (53:4b) What is the point of future Israel’s confession “Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted”?
8. (53:6) What is stressed in this passage?
9. (53:6) How does Unger render the Hebrew of “But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him”?
10. (53:8) What is meant by “By oppression and judgment”?
11. (53:8) What is “the land of the living”?
12. (53:9) What were Christ’s enemies planning for his body? Why?
13. (53:9) What does Unger say about “He had done no violence, nor was there any deceit in His mouth”?
14. (53:10) What is meant by “He will see His offspring”?
15. (53:10) What is meant by “He shall prolong his days”? What is the logic here?
16. (53:11) How does Unger interpret “By His knowledge” (it could also be translated “the Knowledge of Him”)?
17. (53:12) What is meant by “He will divide the booty with the strong”?
18. (53:12) What significance does Unger put on the grammar of the verb “interceded” (an “indefinite future”)?
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