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xi.xxi.iii-p102.2

xi.xxi.iii-p102.282 words

22. Illustrating Christ's well-doing (1Pe 2:20) though suffering.

didGreek aorist. "Never in a single instance did" [Alford]. Quoted from Isa 53:9, end, Septuagint.

neither—nor yet: not even [Alford]. Sinlessness as to the mouth is a mark of perfection. Guile is a common fault of servants. "If any boast of his innocency, Christ surely did not suffer as an evildoer" [Calvin], yet He took it patiently (1Pe 2:20). On Christ's sinlessness, compare 2Co 5:21; Heb 7:26.