[177] The English equivalent is, _nor is loud_.
[178] This time with the article, so not _the land_ of Judah only, but _the Earth_.
[179] Bax, _Religion of Socialism_.
[180] This time "arets" with the article. So not the _land_ of Judah only but the world.
[181] The following are the four main meanings of "mishpat" in Isa. xl.-lxvi.: 1. In a general sense, a legal process, xli. 1, _let us come together to the judgement_, or _the law_ (with the article), _cf._ l. 8, _man of my judgement_, _i.e._, my fellow-at-law, my adversary; liii. 8, oppression and _judgement_, _i.e._, a judgement which was oppressive, a legal injustice. 2. A person's _cause_ or _right_, xl. 27, xlix. 4. 3. _Ordinance_ instituted by Jehovah for the life and worship of His people, lviii. 2, _ordinances_ of righteousness, _i.e._, either canonical _laws_, or ordinances by observing which the people would make themselves righteous. 4. In general, the sum of the laws given by Jehovah to Israel, _the Law_, lviii. 2, _Law_ of their God; li. 4, Jehovah says _My Law_ (Rev. Ver. _judgement_), parallel to "Torah" or Revelation (Rev. Ver. _law_). Then absolutely, without the article or Jehovah's name attached, xlii. 1, 3, 4. In lvi. 1 parallel to righteousness; lix. 14 parallel to righteousness, truth and uprightness. In fact, in this last use, while represented as equivalent to civic morality, it is this, not as viewed in its character, _right_, _upright_, but in its obligation as ordained by God: _morality_ as _His Law_. The absence of the article may either mean what it means in the case of _people_ and _land_, _i.e._, the _Law_, too much of a proper name to need the article, or it may be an attempt to abstract the quality of the Law; and if so mishpat is equal to _justice_.
[182] _Expositor_, second series, vol. viii., p. 364.
[183] This might, of course, only mean what the Servant had to do for his captive countrymen. But coming as it does after the _light of nations_, it seems natural to take it in its wider and more spiritual sense.
[184] See ch. xv. of this volume.
[185] _Expositor_, second series, viii., pp. 364, 365, 366.
[186] _Ibid._, p. 366.