For this I take to be the intent of this verse, to show how ready Christ was to accomplish the office of the mediatorship : Rev. i. 5, he 'loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood.' For in all his conflicts with malicious accusations and opprobrious speeches, he would do no violence, nor express anything that might be an occasion to divert him from his purpose ; but, as a lamb is brought to the slaughter, so he opened not his mouth. I shall prove the point : — 1. By some scriptures that assert it, and show the willingness of Christ: Phil. ii. 8, 'He humbled himself, and became obedient to death, even the death of the cross.' With a great deal of willing patience he complied with the sorest and most bruising act of the mediatorship.
Thomas Manton — A Practical Exposition upon the Fifty-Third Chapter of Isaiah, in The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, D.D., vol. 3 (London: James Nisbet & Co., 1870), on Isa. 53:7, p. 339
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