5 Christian Singer, Behold thy SAVIOUR here, First, Free among the Dead. Understand it not of that Libertas M•rtuorum, which was the Consolation of the Pagans about the actually and perfectly Dead. But understand it as the Extremity and Epitome of the Miseries undergone by our SAVIOUR. Vitringa observes, The Torm notes, A Separation from all Mankind, which most eminently befell our Lord, when He was hanged on the Cross between Heaven and Earth, and all Commerce with Man was denied unto Him, and He was treated as the Execration of the whole World, ⟨p. 234⟩and exposed as Free, so that it was free for every […] to do what they would unto Him, and speak what th•• would about Him. It implies a State, In quo qu••• summe miser, ab aliis de relinquitur, spernitur, vif••• tur. A Leper was indeed such a Free-Man. Hi•• House was called, 2 Kin. XV. 5. An House of Liberty Our Lord on the Cross compares Himself, Isai. LIII. […] to A stricken Man; that is, with a Leprosy. Ever• one abandoned such a Man. Cocceius tells us, Th••• Word used here, is what is used, Pro Publication Personae, for the Exposing of a Person to all manner […] Injury, Violence, and Contumely. On the Cross […] Saviour was as the Apostle says, Act. II. 23. Ex•••• Exposed unto all the Wrongs imaginable. Our Lor•• thus Exposed here, counts Himself, Among the Dead. He was now next unto the State of Death. But more than so; The Cross was esteemed the Grave of the Crucified. The Romans left them there, to be corrupted or devoured. Our Lord was now, Like the Slain lying in the Grave. The Word, Slain, signifies Pierced; The Hebrews have not a more significant Word for, The Crucified.
5 Christian Singer, Behold thy SAVIOUR here, First, Free among the Dead. Understand it not of that Libertas M•rtuorum, which was the Consolation of the Pagans about the actually and perfectly Dead. But understand it as the Extremity and Epitome of the Miseries undergone by our SAVIOUR. Vitringa observes, The Torm notes, A Separation from all Mankind, which most eminently befell our Lord, when He was hanged on the Cross between Heaven and Earth, and all Commerce with Man was denied unto Him, and He was treated as the Execration of the whole World, ⟨p. 234⟩and exposed as Free, so that it was free for every 〈…〉 to do what they would unto Him, and speak what th•• would about Him. It implies a State, In quo qu••• summe miser, ab aliis de relinquitur, spernitur, vif••• tur. A Leper was indeed such a Free-Man. Hi•• House was call'd, 2 Kin. XV. 5. An House of Liberty Our Lord on the Cross compares Himself, Isai. LIII. 〈…〉 to A stricken Man; that is, with a Leprosy. Ever• one abandoned such a Man. Cocceius tells us, Th••• Word used here, is what is used, Pro Publication Personae, for the Exposing of a Person to all manner 〈…〉 Injury, Violence, and Contumely. On the Cross 〈…〉 Saviour was as the Apostle says, Act. II. 23. Ex•••• Exposed unto all the Wrongs imaginable. Our Lor•• thus Exposed here, counts Himself, Among the Dead. He was now next unto the State of Death. But more than so; The Cross was esteemed the Grave of the Crucified. The Romans left them there, to be corrupted or devoured. Our Lord was now, Like the Slain lying in the Grave. The Word, Slain, signifies Pierced; The Hebrews have not a more significant Word for, The Crucified.
