Isaiah 53:8, Dead Sea Scroll ; "From prison and from judgement he was taken and his generation who shall discuss it because he was cut off from the land of the living. Because from the transgressions of his people a wound was to him"

Isaiah 53:8 LXX  (1 Clement 16:7-9)  "In His humiliation His judgment was taken away;  ⁸ who shall declare His generation? for His life is taken from the earth.  ⁹ For the transgressions of my people was He brought down to death."

Isaiah 53:8 LXX or Greek texts (Thomson Version) ; "In this humiliation his legal trial  was taken away. Who will declare his manner of life.  Because his life is taken from the earth- for the transgressions of my people he is led to death;..."

Cross references:

Acts 8:33-35, vs.33 ; "In His humiliation, His judgment was taken away. And who shall declare His generation? For His life is taken from the earth."

34 And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?

35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus."

Note that Phillip is quoting a text closer to the greek Septuagint (LXX) than the Hebrew (MT, AV, KJV) text.

1 Peter 3:18-22, vs 18 ;  "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit,"

19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;

 20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

 21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

 22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him."

Adam Clarke "Taken away - Out of this life. By distress and judgment - By oppression and violence. and a pretence of justice. His generation - His posterity. For his death shall not be unfruitful; when he is raised from the dead, he shall have a spiritual seed, a numberless multitude of those who shall believe in him."

Jamiesson, Faucet, Brown ; "LUTHER, "His length of life," that is, there shall be no end of His future days (Isaiah 53:10, Romans 6:9). HENGSTENBERG, "His posterity." He, indeed, shall be cut off, but His race shall be so numerous that none can fully declare it. CHYRSOSTOM, etc., "His eternal sonship and miraculous incarnation."

Hengstenburg ; "Several as Luther, Calvin, Vitringa, translate it, 'who will declare the length of his future days- meaning that there would be no end to his existence, and implying that though he would be cut off, yet he would be raised again, and would live for ever. ."

Calvin ".We have, therefore, a distingushed testimony respecting the perpetuity of the church. For as Christ lives for ever, so he will not suffer his kingdom to perish."

John Gill (in part) ; "In his humiliation his judgment was taken away, &c.] The humiliation, or low estate of Christ, lay in his assumption of human nature, with the weaknesses and imperfections of it; in the meanness (simplicity) of his parentage and education; in the sorrows he endured from his cradle to his cross; in his last conflict with Satan in the garden; in his being apprehended, bound, scourged, and condemned, both by the sanhedrim, and the Roman governor; and in being enclosed with the assembly of the wicked soldiers, who put on him their own clothes, and a crown of thorns on his head, and a reed in his hand, and then in a mock manner bowed to him as king of the Jews; and last of all in his obedience to death, even the death of the cross, and in his being laid in the grave. Now in this his low estate, "his judgment was taken away"; in the text in Isaiah 53:8 the words are, "he was taken from prison and from judgment"; which some understand of his sufferings, and render the words thus, "by an assembly, and by judgment he was taken away"; that is, by the Jewish sanhedrim, and by the judgment or sentence of Pontius Pilate, his life was taken away: and others interpret it of his resurrection from the dead, when he was taken or delivered from the prison of the grave, and could not be held any longer by the cords and pains of death; and from the judgment or condemnation under which he lay, being justified in the Spirit, when he was raised from the dead.

Albert Barnes ; "He was taken from confinement, and was dragged to (his ultimate) death by a judicial sentence, and he should have a numerous spiritual posterity, because he was cut off on account of the sins of the people."

Milton (  In this verse there is much controversy as to its meaning among the commentators and I hesitate to put mere poetry in this study, yet, lo and behold this famous poet, true believer or not, God knows,. seems nevertheless to capture the spirit of the prophecy!)

"To the cross He nails thine enemies-

The law that is against thee, and the sins

Of all mankind, with Him there crucified-

Never to hurt them more, who rightly trust

In this His satisfaction"

Isaiah 53:10 LXX (Charles Thomson's verion); "and the Lord deterineth to purify him from this stroke : when his soul shall be given up for a sin offering; of you he shall see a seed which shall prolong their days."

Isaiah 53:10 LXX (Clement's LXX from the ANF vol. 1) ; "And the Lord is pleased to purify Him by stripes. If ye make an offering for sin, your soul shall see a long-lived seed."  [my ft]

[ft] Adam Clarke (translation note) ; " When thou shalt make his soul " "If his soul shall make"- ... "If his soul shall be made " agreeably to some copies of the Septuagint, which have (dwte) See likewise the Syriac (see also this study Resurrection from Hebrew texts and Exaltation section )

Isaiah 53:10, Dead Sea Scroll ; "And YHWH was pleased to crush him and He has caused him grief. "If you will appoint his soul a sin offering he will see his seed and he will lengthen his days and the pleasure of YHWH  in his hand will advance."

Cross references:

Daniel 9:24 LXX (Thomson version)  "Seventy weeks are set apart for thy people and for the holy city; for finishing sin offerings, and for sealing up sin offerings; and blotting out iniquities, and making atonement for iniquities; and for bringing in an everlasting righteousness; and for sealing vision and prophet; and for anointing the Holy of Holies."

2 Corinthians 5:21 "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him."

John 12:24  Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

Hebrews 7:27  Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

Hebrews 9:14  How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Hebrews 9:25  Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;

Hebrews 9:26  For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Hebrews 10:10  By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Hebrews 10:12  But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

Isaiah 9:7  Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

Psalm 89:29 And I will establish his seed for ever and ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

Ezekiel 37:25  And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.

Daniel 7:13  I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

Daniel 7:14  And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

Ezekiel 37:25, LXX  "And they shall dwell in their land, which I have given to my servant Jacob, where their fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell upon it: and David my servant shall be their prince forever."

Hengstenberg ; "Long life and numerous descendents are regarded by the Hebrews as the highest prosperity, as a theocratic blessing and a reward of piety. In a higher and spiritual sense shall this reward be given to the Messiah.

These descendents are none other than the many and mighty, whom God, according to the twelfth verse, has given to the Messiah for a possession, and who, were to be freed from sin, and the eleventh verse, justified through Him, the punishment of whose sins He has taken upon Himself in the fifth verse, and for whom, in the twelfth verse, He intercedes with God. The natural relation between father and son is often transferred to spiritual subjects. The prophets bore the name of 'father', their disciples that of the sons of the prophets. See the twenty-fifth verse of the second chapter of the first book of Kings. In a higher sense, believers begotten of God in a spiritual manner, obedient to Him, as dutiful children, and forming, as it were, His family, are called the 'posterity of God', or of the Messiah. Thus in the thirty-first verse of the twenty-second Psalm : 'The seed which shall serve Him shall be reckoned to the Lord for a posterity,' i.e. the descendants of the Messiah shall be considered as God's posterity, as His children."

Matthew Henry ; "Who shall declare his generation? his age, or continuance (so the word signifies), 'the time of his life'  He rose to die no more; death had no more dominion over him. He that was dead is alive, and lives for evermore; and who can describe that immortality to which he rose, or number the years and ages of it? And he is advanced to this eternal life because for the transgression of his people he became obedient to death. We may take it as denoting the time of his usefulness, as David is said to serve his generation, and so to answer the end of living. Who can declare how great a blessing Christ by his death and resurrection will be to the world? Some by his generation understand his spiritual seed: Who can count the vast numbers of converts that shall by the gospel be begotten to him, like the dew of the morning?

When thus exalted he shall live to see

A numberless believing progeny

Of his adopted sons; the godlike race

Exceed the stars that heav'n's high arches grace.

   "Sir R. Blackmore"

John Gill ; "10-12 Come, and see how Christ loved us! We could not put Him in our stead, but He put Himself. Thus He took away the sin of the world, by taking it on Himself. He made Himself subject to death, which to us is the wages of sin. Observe the graces and glories of His state of exaltation. Christ will not commit the care of His family to any other. God's purposes shall take effect. And whatever is undertaken according to God's pleasure shall prosper. He shall see it accomplished in the conversion and salvation of sinners. There are many whom Christ justifies, even as many as he gave his life a ransom for. By faith we are justified; thus God is most glorified, free grace most advanced, self most abased, and our happiness secured. We must know him, and believe in him, as one that bore our sins, and saved us from sinking under the load, by taking it upon himself. Sin and Satan, death and hell, the world and the flesh, are the strong foes he has vanquished. What God designed for the Redeemer he shall certainly possess. When he led captivity captive, he received gifts for men, that he might give gifts to men. While we survey the sufferings of the Son of God, let us remember our long catalogue of transgressions, and consider him as suffering under the load of our guilt. Here is laid a firm foundation for the trembling sinner to rest his soul upon. We are the purchase of his blood, and the monuments of his grace; for this he continually pleads and prevails, destroying the works of the devil."

Edward J. Young ; ".He will see a seed, ie. His own seed, those whom He by His vicarious suffering and expiatory sacrifice has redeemed from the guilt and the power of their sins, a great multitude that no man can number. These are the ones for whom He offers His soul as an oblation, the many nations that He sprinkles, the many (see verse 11) whom He justifies, whose sin He bears (vs.5) who are assigned to Him and for whom He makes intercession. The term 'seed' is obviously used in a spiritual sense." [ft]

[ft] see Young's "The Book of Isaiah" page 355 Eerdmanns

W.E. Vine " 'He shall see His seed' An Israelite was regarded as conspicuously blessed if he had a numerous posterity, and especially if he lived to see them (Genesis 48:11,Psalm 128:6). Here then we have an intimation of the exceeding joy of Christ in seeing the results of His sacrifice in the countless multitude of His spiritual posterity from among Jew and Gentile."  [ft]

[ft] see Vine's Expository commentary on Isaiah

Pulpit Commentary (Clarkson) on versus 8 and 10 ; ".

THE BREVITY AND PERPETUITY OF OUR LORD'S CAREER. It was indeed true, as the prophet foresaw, that "he was cut off," etc.; his days were few; his ministry was brief, counted by months rather than by years. There did not seem to be time enough in that short span, in a course so quickly run and so suddenly concluded, to accomplish anything great and far-reaching. But how wide has his influence proved! how long has his

Name been known and his power been felt! How has he "prolonged his days" in the institutions he has founded which are existing now, in the truth he announced which is triumphing to-day over all other theories, in the spirit he communicated which is breathing still in the laws, the literature, the habits, the language of mankind! Who shall declare his generation?

Does he not "see his seed" in the countless children of his grace who flock to his standard, who bless his Name, who call him Lord and Saviour and Friend! He who was so soon cut off from the land of the living is proving himself to be the One who hath immortality as no other son of man has had or ever will have."

Isaiah 53:12 LXX (Charles Thomson version); "Therefore He shall inherit many, and divide the spoils of the strong. Because his soul was delivered up to death and He was numbered among transgressors; and bore away the sins of many, and on account of their iniquities was delivered up."

 Isaiah 53:12 KJV /AV "Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong; because He hath poured out His soul unto death: and He was numbered with the transgressors; and He bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors."

Dead Sea Scroll Isaiah 53 verse 12 "Therefore I will apportion to Him among the great ones and with the mighty ones He shall divide the spoil because He laid bare to death His soul and with the transgressors He was numbered, and He, the sins of many, He bore, and for their transgressions He entreated." (This reference and the footnoted commentary from the Moellerhaus webpage) [ft]

[ft]An offering for sin. [asham] the word is used repeatedly in the O.T. and translated as "trespass offering" The Masoretic text translates "if His soul shall consider it a recompense for guilt, He shall see His seed..."The text is properly translated in the KJV but the Masoretic requires extra words to arrive at this translation. It clearly states that when you shall place (the Messiah's soul) as a sin offering He shall see His seed and prolong His days."

The Biblical scholars Hengstenberg and Lowth subscribe to the Septuagint reading over the Massoretic text here wherefore this verse is also found in  the Messiah Resurrection Prophecies from the Greek texts as well as here. The Greek Old Testament version is: Isaiah 53:12 LXX "Therefore He shall inherit much, and divide the spoils of the strong. His soul was delivered up to death: and He was numbered among transgressors; and bore away the sins of many, and on account of their iniquities was delivered up."

Cross references :

Psalm 2:8  "Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession."

Acts 26:18 (the Resurrected and ascended Jesus appearing and speaking to Paul or rather Saul) ;  "To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them who are sanctified by faith that is in Me."

Philippians 2:9-11  "Therefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:  ¹⁰ That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things on earth, and things under the earth;  ¹¹ And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."

Jude 1:14-15  ¹⁴ And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,  ¹⁵ To execute judgment upon all, and to convict all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have impiously committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

Hebrews 12:2  Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Colossians 1:12-22  "Giving thanks to the Father, who hath made us qualified to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:  ¹³ Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his beloved Son:  ¹⁴ In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:  ¹⁵ Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation:  ¹⁶ For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are upon earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:  ¹⁷ And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.  ¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he may have the preeminence.  ¹⁹ For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;  ²⁰ And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things to himself; by him, I say, whether they are things on earth, or things in heaven.  ²¹ And you, that were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled  ²² In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:"

Judges 5:31 LXX (Thomson version) "So perish all Thine enemies, 0 Lord, let them who love Thee be like the going forth of the Sun in his might."

Hebrews 12:2  Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God."

Matthew Henry ; " v. 12. Because He has done all these good services, therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great, and, according to the will of the Father, He shall divide the spoil with the strong, as a great general, when He has driven the enemy out of the field, takes the plunder of it for Himself and His army, which is both an unquestionable evidence of the victory and a recompense for all the toils and perils of the battle."

Spurgeon ; " "Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great." "I will do it; I will see that He conquers; I will see that He has the reward of His labor. My own Right Hand and My Holy Arm shall so be with Him that He shall tread down His enemies, and He shall take from them mountains of prey." Who is this that saith "I will divide Him a portion' " It is He at whose voice the earth trembles."-

" 'and He shall divide." God gives Him the victory, and He takes it Himself. The Father grants it, and the Son grasps it by His own Right Hand. The glorious Jehovah cries, "He shall divide," and the ever-blessed Son of the Highest as a conqueror comes forth actually to divide the spoil. Oh, my brethren, Jesus is as gentle as a lamb; but I might say of Him as they of the Red Sea said of Jehovah, "The Lord is a man of war: tis Lord is His name." This Lamb is

the Lion of the tribe of Judah, and who shall stand before Him when He goes forth to war? Who shall rouse Him up? They that came against Him to take Him in the days of His humiliation stumbled and fell when He uttered the words, "I AM"; and if they fall when the power of that "I AM" had been let loose upon them they had not merely staggered to their falling, but each man among them had stumbled into his grave."-..."God, even the Father, the selfsame one whom it pleased to bruise His Son, when He made the iniquity of us all to meet upon Him - that selfsame God Who knows all things, and weighs all things aright, and is the very source and soul of honor, He shall crown our Lord Jesus. Must it not be a glorious victory? He has crowned Him; He is crowning Him; He shall continue to crown Him; for thus it is written, "Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great."-..." 'He shall divide the spoil with the strong.' That is, He will divide it out, and allot portions to all those who came to the help of the Lord against the mighty. Just as David after Ziklag when he had taken the prey from the Amalekites, sent portions all round to his friends in Judah, so when the King Eternal takes the spoil, He will give a share to you and to me, if we have been faithful to Him. There shall be a portion even for us whom the Lord made strong for Himself in the day of battle. Does it not make your heart laugh to think of it? Jesus wins the victory, but He will not enjoy it alone; He will glorify His people. Even the sick folk that go not down to the battle shall have their share of the spoil; for this is David's law,  [my ft]

[ft] 1 Samuel 30:23-24 ; verse 23 ; " And David said, Ye shall not do so, after the Lord has delivered the enemy to us, and guarded us, and the Lord has delivered into our hands the troop that came against us. 24 And who will hearken to these your words? for they are not inferior to us; for according to the portion of him that went down to the battle, so shall be the portion of him that abides with the baggage; they shall share alike. "

and the law of the Son of David, that they that abide with the stuff shall share with those that go down to the fight. He will give to each faithful sufferer or worker a portion of the prey. Make haste, O Champion, make haste to give to everyone of us a prey of divers colors,  [my ft]

[ft], Judges 5:30,  LXX ; " Will they not find him dividing the spoil? he will surely be gracious to every man: there are spoils of dyed garments for Sisara, spoils of various dyed garments, dyed embroidered garments, they are the spoils for his neck.

meet for the necks of them that take the spoil!"-..."Let me remind you that, in consequence of what our Lord has done, myriads of souls will be redeemed. How many will escape from sin and death and hell to live for ever is not revealed. We have every reason to believe that a number that no man can number, out of every nation, and people, and kindred, and tongue, shall praise their redeeming,; Lord. Christ's death will not spend its force in the conversion of here and there one, but 'He will see of the travail of His soul and will be satisfied'; and we are convinced that no little thing will satisfy Him. The great result of our Lord's death will be the eternal salvation of myriads untold.

Next to that will be the overthrow of every form of evil which now reigns in the world, and the extermination of religious falsehood, vice, drunkenness, war, and every horrible mischief born of the fall and of human depravity. Christ will conquer these, and there shall be new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. For ever and ever boundless honors shall be given to Christ for his victory over every force of evil. The seed of the woman shall trample on the serpent.

As the result of Christ's death Satan's power will be broken. He will no longer go forth to rule among the nations.

Death also will have lost its dominion over the sons of men. The Son of David shall restore that which He took not away. More than our first father lost shall Christ bring back. There shall be glory substantial to Himself in the lives of His people on earth, in their deaths, and in their lives for ever.

Glory shall be brought to God of a new and unusual kind. A light will be shed upon the character of God which, so far as we know, could not have come to us by any other means except by the death of the Only Begotten.

Hallelujahs louder than before shall rise up before the throne. Praises shall ascend unto God such as creation never produced, "for Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed as unto God by Thy blood, and we shall reign for ever and ever.". " Sin cannot be victorious if Jesus has carried it on His shoulders and hurled it into His sepulcher. If the darkest days were to come, and all the churches of Christ were to be extinguished, if there were left only one Christian, and He as good as dead by reason of weakness, yet might He believe that God from the dead would raise up seed unto His Son, and fulfill His covenant and keep His word. It must be so. The offering of Christ's soul for sin secures to Him a seed for ever.".

"Isaiah the prophet - "I will divide him a portion with the great and he shall divide the spoil with the strong." God divides, and Christ divides. The triumph is God's; the Father "divides for Him a portion with the great;" it is equally Christ's, He "divides the spoil with the strong."

Set not one Person before the Other; reverently adore Them alike, for they are One - one in design, one in character, and one in essence; and whilst they be truly three, we may in adoration exclaim, "Unto the One God of heaven and earth the glory, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen."

John Calvin ;  " 'Therefore will I divide to him a portion'. Isaiah again declares what will be the result of the death of Christ. It was necessary that he should add this doctrine as to the victory which Christ obtained by His death; for what was formerly stated, that by His death we are reconciled to the Father, would not have sufficiently confirmed our hearts. Here he borrows a comparison from the ordinary form of a triumphal procession held by those who, after having obtained a signal victory, are commonly received and adorned with great pomp and splendor. Thus also Christ, as a valiant and illustrious general, triumphed over the enemies whom he had vanquished."-

" For us Christ subdued death, the world, and the devil. In a word, the Prophet here applauds the victory which followed the death of Christ; for "although He was crucified through the weakness of the flesh, yet by the power of the Spirit" He rose from the dead, and triumphed over His enemies. (2 Corinthians 13:4) Such is the import of the metaphor of "Spoil," which the Prophet used; for "He ascended on high, that he might lead captivity captive and give gifts to men." (Psalm 68:18; Ephesians 4:8)"

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Zechariah 6:11-12 LXX (Charles Thomson version), vs 11 " And thou shalt take silver and gold and make crowns and put one on the head of Jesus, the son of Josedek  the high priest,

vs 12  and say to him, Thus saith the Lord Almighty, Behold a man! his name is Anatole [Day- spring] underneath him he shall spring up. And he shall build the house of the Lord.

[my ft]

[ft] other meanings associated with Anatole as in verse 12 are: a rising (of the sun and stars); light rising evx u[you jj, Luke 1:78. the east (the quarter of the sun's rising): Matt. 2:2, 9; Rev. 21:13 . Also "light rising", "to come up", "to give birth to" (Christ Jesus was the "Firstborn from the dead" Colossions 1:18, "bring to light", "rise up", "dawn", and a "flame mounting up" avnatolh,, a rising, rise, of the sun, , .the quarter of sunrise, East, Latin: Oriens,. shoot, growing, branch, sprout. Keil and Delitzsch:"...it also contains an illusion to the fact that He (the Messiah) will grow from below upwards, from lowliness to eminence."

Note: Verse 13 is commented upon in the "Exaltation" portion of this study

Cross references:

Exodus 28:36-38, LXX (Thomson version) ; vs 36 "And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it with the engraving of a seal, Holiness to the Lord, vs 37 and thou shalt fix it on a blue lace; and it shall be upon the mitre. Vs 38 It shall be upon the front of the mitre and upon Aaron's forehead; and Aaron shall bear away the sins of the holy things  which the children of Isreal may dedicate-of every gift  of their holy things. And I shall be upon Aaron's forehead continually to make them acceptable before the Lord."

Isaiah 53:11, LXX "the Lord also is pleased to take away from the travail of his soul, to shew him light, and to form him with understanding; to justify the just one who serves many well; and he shall bear their sins."

Psalm 21:3 LXX (from Augustine's Septuagint) ;"For Thou hast presented Him with the blessings of sweetness. Thou hast set a crown of precious stone on His Head."

Hebrews 2:9  But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

Revelation 19:12  His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.

Acts 17:31  Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

Hebrews 7:24  But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.

Zechariah 3:8 [LXX 3:9] (Thomson version) ;  "Hearken now, 0 Jesus, the high priest, thou and they near thee who sit in [thy] presence, for they are men who foretell wonderful things; for lo! I am bringing My servant Anatole, [the Day-spring]"

Gill ; "...no other than the Messiah; and so the Targum paraphrases the words,"behold the man Messiah is his name;"...Philo the Jew interprets this passage of a divine Person, the Son of God, by whom no other than the Messiah is meant,  "we have heard (says he) one of the friends of Moses, i. e. Zechariah, saying thus, behold the man "whose name is the east", or rising sun (so the Greek version renders the words); a new appellation...that the name is fitly given him, the ancient Sun, the Father of beings will cause to arise; whom otherwise he names the first begotten, and, who, being begotten, imitates the ways of his Father; and looking at his archetypal exemplars, forms the same."

Adam Clarke ..."most probably in reference to that glorious person, the Messiah, of whom he was the type or figure. The Chaldee has, "whose name is my MESSIAH," or CHRIST. ..."

Matthew Henry ; "...as in the spring, when the sun returns, the flowers spring out of the roots, in which they lay buried out of sight and out of mind. He shall grow up for himself (so some read it) 'Lat. propria virtute'-by his own vital energy, shall be exalted in his own strength."

Pulpit commentary; "Christ is said to have on his head many crowns, by which is meant a diadem composed of many circlets. The high priest's mitre is never called a crown. That which was placed on Joshua's head was a royal crown, a token of royal dignity, not his own, but his whom he represented ? Christ the eternal Priest, the universal King."

Ver. 12.  'Speak unto him, saying. The prophet is to explain to Joshua the meaning of this public act. Behold the Man whose name is The BRANCH; literally, behold the man, BRANCH is his name (see note on Zechariah 3:8). The Targum has, "Behold the Man, Messiah is his name." It is plain that the term "Branch" or "Shoot" (LXX., Anatolh: Vulgate, Oriens) could not be addressed to Joshua; indeed, the very form of the sentence, "his name," not "thy name," shows this. All who saw the transaction and heard the words must have understood that they had reference to the "Shoot" of David, the Messiah that was to come, to whom was committed the regal and priestly dignity."

Barnes ; "...the Messiah, it was foretold, was to be both priest and king; "a priest after the order of Melchizedec" Psa_110:4, and a king, set by the Lord "upon His holy hill of Zion" Psa_2:6. The act of placing the crown on the head of Joshua the high priest, pictured not only the union of the offices of priest and king in the person of Christ, but that He should be King, being first our High Priest. Joshua was already high priest; being such, the kingly crown was added to him. It says in act, what Paul says, that "Christ Jesus, being found in fashion as a man, humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him" Phi_2:8-9."

Keil and Delitzsch;