Was Jesus actually abandoned by God in Mathew 27:46?

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30 Posterity shall serve him; men shall tell of the Lord to the coming generation,
31 and proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn, that he has wrought it.
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I don’t know how plausible it is, because I only dimly recall reading it once, but I have seen the suggestion that Jesus’ “It is finished” from the Cross was a somewhat loose rendering of that last bit there, the “He has wrought it/He has done it.” Suggesting that He quoted the first line, recited most of it in His head (while giving everyone else time to do the same) and then said the very end out loud – the very end that says “God did the thing,” meaning in this instance “God just now did the thing.”

We see Jesus do something similar when He visits His hometown and is asked to read the Scripture in the synagogue. He reads a passage written in the first person by Isaiah about someone sent by God to bring healing and deliverance, and then His “homily” on the passage is basically, “That’s me, right now. Everyone else who has ever read this passage was just waiting for the guy who actually is the ‘me’ being referred to. I’m him.” IIRC the Nazareth congregation didn’t take it well.
 
I don’t think anyone would disagree that Jesus paid the eternal price, delivering us from sin and death in a way we could never do ourselves.

On the other hand, by the same action He also adopts us into the family and sends us about the family business, which can involve emulating even His rejection and suffering.

If we’re not careful to include both, we end up with things like the pre-trib Rapture and the prosperity gospel, where the Church/Christians never have to suffer anything because He did it all. Which would be a surprise to the first generation that actually wrote all this stuff. The same Jewish authorities that turned on Jesus, and the same Roman regime that tortured and killed Him, persecuted and ultimately killed Peter and Paul and several of the others.
 
Usagi said:
I don’t know how plausible it is, because I only dimly recall reading it once, but I have seen the suggestion that Jesus’ “It is finished” from the Cross was a somewhat loose rendering of that last bit there, the “He has wrought it/He has done it.” Suggesting that He quoted the first line, recited most of it in His head (while giving everyone else time to do the same) and then said the very end out loud – the very end that says “God did the thing,” meaning in this instance “God just now did the thing.”
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That’s a beautiful thought. Thank you for sharing.

Yes, it sounds like it might be a somewhat “loose rendering” (as you say), not least because the Psalms were written in Hebrew, and John’s gospel, recording Jesus’ final words, was written in Greek.

But that’s a powerful point, that Jesus not only said the first words of Psalm 22 on the cross, but also said, from the cross, something that evokes the final words of Psalm 22.

Something very comforting to me about that, today. Thank you again, for sharing.
 
I was like 90% sure I would read something slightly Nestorian in this thread. I am glad I didn’t.

Regardless of what anyone else would say, it is important to remember that Jesus, even with his status as the Word of God, had sweat blood from the sheer sense of anxiety related trauma in his human mind. Given that we say Jesus has a hypostatic union, we would say that yes, he really did feel abandoned by God to the extent of Isaiah 53:10 would suggest.
 
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When you leave out the difference between temporal and eternal suffering.
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Just wanted to point out that Jesus didn’t experience “eternal suffering”.

I Pet 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

Notice, that it was “once suffered” and is now past tense. The wages of sin is not eternally suffering, but rather suffering unto death, which is what Jesus experienced.

God is “long-suffering”, not “eternally suffering” in any way.
 
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“Jesus did not experience reprobation as if he himself had sinned.— But in the redeeming love that always united him tot he Father, he assumed us in the state of our waywardness ofsin, to the point that he could say in our name from the cross: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”— Having thus established him in solidarity with us sinners, God “did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all,” so that we might be “reconciled to God by the death of his Son” (CCC 603).
 
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