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John Gill's Exposition on Isaiah 50:6
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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I gave my back to the smiters, &c.] To Pontius Pilate, and those he ordered to scourge him, (<402726>Matthew 27:26) and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; of the beard; which, is painful, so a great indignity and affront. The Septuagint renders it, “and my cheeks to blows”; eiv rapismata, a word used by the evangelists when they speak of Christ being smitten and stricken with the palms of men’s hands, and seem to refer to this passage, (<411465>Mark 14:65 <431822>John 18:22 <330501> Micah 5:1): I hid not my face from shame and spitting; or from shameful spitting; they spit in his face, and exposed him to shame, and which was a shameful usage of him, and yet he took it patiently, (<402667>Matthew 26:67), these are all instances of great shame and reproach; as what is more reproachful among us, or more exposes a man, than to be stripped of his clothes, receive lashes on his bare back, and that in public? in which ignominious manner Christ was used: or what reckoned more scandalous, than for a man to have his beard plucked by a mob? which used to be done by rude and wanton boys, to such as were accounted idiots, and little better than brutesf992; and nothing is more affronting than to spit in a man’s face. So Job was used, which he mentions as a great indignity done to him, (<183010>Job 30:10). With some people, and in some countries, particular places, that were mean and despicable, were appointed for that use particularly to spit in. Hence Aristippus the philosopher, being shown a fine room in a house, beautifully and richly paved, spat in the face of the owner of it; at which he being angry, and resenting it, the philosopher replied, that he had not a fitter place to spit inf993.
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