[187] This, of course, goes against Prof. Briggs's theory of the composition of Isa. xl.-lxvi. out of two poems (see p. 18).
[188] This line is full of the letter m.
[189] This is as the text is written; but the Massoretic reading gives, _that Israel to Him may be gathered_.
[190] So it seems best to give the sense of this difficult line, but most translators render _despised of soul_, or _thoroughly despised_, _abhorred by peoples_, or _by a people_, etc. The word for _despised_ is used elsewhere only in ch. liii. 3.
[191] Prof. A. B. Davidson, _Expositor_, Second Series, viii., 441.
[192] Page 68.
[193] So George Eliot wrote of her own writings shortly before her death. See _Life_, iii., 245.
[194] Lady Ponsonby, to whom George Eliot wrote the letter quoted above, confessed that, with the disappearance of religious faith from her soul, there vanished also the power of interest in, and of pity for, her kind.
[195] Jer. i. 5.
[196] See vol. i., p. 70.
[197] See p. 240 f.
[198] How all their meanness, how all the sense of shame from which He suffered, breaks forth in these words: _Are ye come out as against a robber?_
[199] Literally, _lord of my cause_; my adversary or opponent at law.
[200] Epistle to the Romans, viii., 31 ff.
[201] Though Cheyne takes _His Servant_ in ver. 10 to be, not the Servant, but the prophet.
[202] _Kindlers of fire_ is the literal rendering. But the word is not the common word to kindle, and is here used of wanton fireraising.