The base scripture
There’s this scripture.
Isaiah 53:1-2 (KJV)
1 Who hath believed our report?
and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant,
and as a root out of a dry ground:
he hath no form nor comeliness;
and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
These are the notes to it in Dake’s annotated reference Bible. ![]()
(Dake Study Bible Notes) e [when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him]
Messiah’s Lack of Beauty
This was true when men saw Him in His sufferings, but if they could see Him now in His exalted glory they would desire Him (see Php. 2:9-11). Even when they saw Him in His life before His sufferings such could not have been true except in the case of enemies, filled with satanic hatred. Christ was probably very handsome; but the sufferings described here would cause anyone to think there was no beauty about Him.
The following description of Him, thought to have been written during His life on earth before His sufferings, is probably spurious, but it certainly is a wonderful word picture of a wonderful man:
“There lives at his time in Judea a man of singular virtue, whose name is Jesus Christ, whom the barbarians esteem as a prophet, but his followers love and adore him as the offspring of the immortal God. He calls back the dead from the grave and heals all sorts of diseases with a word or touch. He is a tall man, well shaped, and of an amiable and reverend aspect; his hair of a color that can hardly be matched, falling in graceful curls, waving about and very agreeably couching upon his shoulders, parted on the crown of the head, running like a stream to the front after the fashion of the Nazarites; his forehead high, large and imposing; his cheeks without spot or wrinkle, beautiful with a lovely red; his nose and mouth formed with exquisite symmetry; his beard of the color of new wine suitable to his hair, reaching below his chin and parted in the middle like a fork; his eyes bright blue, clear, and serene, look innocent, dignified, manly, and mature. In proportion of body most perfect and captivating; his arms and hands delectable to behold. He rebukes with majesty, counsels with mildness; his whole address, whether in word or deed, being eloquent and grave. No man has seen him laugh, yet his manners are exceedingly pleasant, but he has wept frequently in the presence of men. He is temperate, modest, and wise. A man for his extraordinary beauty and divine perfections, surpassing the children of men in every sense.”
Historical evidence
Pertinent.
Holocaust denial
Shocking ways in which what we all know and have witnesses and pictures of is being denied only decades after, talk less of centuries and millennia. ![]()