John Trapp on Isaiah 50:5-6

Ver. 5. The Lord God hath opened mine ear] Removing all lets, and making the bore bigger, as it were thereby ſpeaking home to my heart, and making me morigerous and obedient, againſt all affronts and miſuſages. For here our Saviour ſetteth forth his active obedience, as in the next verſe his Paſſive.

De Temp. ſer. 114. Ver. 6. I gave my back to the ſmiters] Ecce pro impio Pietas flagellatur, &c. ſaith Ambroſe Behold the man (as Pilat once ſaid) the juſt man ſcourged for the unjuſt, (1 Pet. 3.18.) wiſdom derided for the fools ſake; truth denied for the lyars ſake; mercy afflicted for the cruel mans ſake, life dying for the dead mans ſake. What are all our ſufferings to his? how oft have we been whipped, depiled, deſpitefully ſpit upon, &c. for his ſake? Oh that I might have the maiden-head of that kind of ſuffering, ſaid One of the Martyrs in the Marian times! for I have not heard that you have yet whipped any: Biſhop Bonner, afterwards, with his own hands whipped ſome, and pulled a great part of their beards off.

I hid not my face from ſhame and spitting] That is, from ſhameful ſpitting: See Matth. 26, 47. & 27.3[illegible: 1 letter]. with the Notes. Diſcamus etiam hoc loco, ſaith Oecolampadius, Learn here alſo what is the character of a true Chriſtian Miniſter, namely to expreſs Chriſt to the world as much as may be, viz, by apt utterance, ſeaſonable comforts, divine learning, ready obedience, conſtant patience, exemplary innocence, diſcreet zeal, &c.