It may be that the word employed means full,' rather than content,' but the latter idea can scarcely be altogether absent from it. We have, then, the groat hope that the Servant, gazing on the results of His sufferings, will be content, content to have borne them, content with what they have effected.
The glory dies not and the grief is past.'
And the grief' has had for fruit not only glory' gathering round the thorn-pierced head, but reflected glory shining on the brows of the many,' whom He has justified and sanctified by their experience of Him and His power. The creative week ended with the rest of the Creator, not because His energy was tired and needed repose, but because He had fully carried out His purpose, and saw the perfected idea embodied in a creation that was very good.' The redemptive work ends with the Servant's satisfied contemplation of the many whom He has made like Himself, His better creation.
