John Trapp on Isaiah 53:7

Ver. 7. He was oppreſſed and he was afflicted] Heb. It (the puniſhment of our ſin) was exacted, and he (being our ſurety) was afflicted. Or, It was exacted, and he anſwered, i. e. ſatisfied.

Yet he opened not his mouth] Though he ſuffered, the juſt for the unjuſt, with the unjuſt, upon unjuſt cauſes, under unjuſt Judges, and by unjuſt puniſhments: Silence and ſufferance was the language of this Holy Lamb, dumb before the ſhearer; inſomuch as that Pilat wondered exceedingly. The Eunuch alſo wondered when he read this Text,In vita ejus apud Surlum. Acts 8.32. and was converted. And the like is related of a certain Earle called Eleazar, a cholerick man, but much altered for the better by ſtudy of Chriſt and of his patience. I beſeech you by the meekneſſe of Chriſt, ſaith Paul: and Peter, who was an eye-witneſſe of his patience, propoundeth him for a worthy partern, 1 Epiſt. 2.23. Vide mihi languidum, exhauſtum, cruentatum, trementem, & gementem Jeſum tuum, & evaneſcet omnis impatientiae effectus. Chriſt upon the Croſſe is as a Doctour in his chair, where he readeth unto us all a lecture of Patience.

He is brought as a Lamb to the ſlaughter] Or, as a ſheep that is led to the ſlaughter: which when we ſee done, we ſhould bethink us of Chriſt, and ſee Him as it were in an Optick glaſſe. The Saints of old did ſo in their Sacrifices: and this was that hidden wiſdom David ſpeaks of Pſal. 51.8. the Ceremonial Law was their Goſpel.

And as a ſheep before her ſhearer is dumb] The word Rachel ſignifieth an Ew, Gen. 31.38. & 32.14. This Ew hath brought forth many Lambs;Act. & Mon. fol. 811. ſuch as was Lambert and the reſt of the Martyrs, who to words of ſcorn and petulancy returned Iſaac's Apology to his brother Iſhmael, Patience and Silence: inſomuch as that the Perſecutours ſaid that they were poſſeſſed with a dumb devil. This was a kind of blaſphemy.