are parallel ; and also, / have chosen, and I am well pleased. — fip'tnffa, I have chosen — a/ptri£>fiv = a,iptrbv oplfyiv, to set apart as chosen. — tig ov, towards whom) The preposition ti$ denotes the perpetual tendency of the Father's mind towards His Beloved [Son]. See 2 Pet. i. 17. — xpiffiv, judgment) salutary to men. See ver. 20, and John xvi. 11. — xpiaig, judgment, is the separa tion of sin and righteousness. — ro?s sdvttiv, to the Gentiles) when He shall have departed from the Jews. — d-rayyEXs^ He shall announce) He both performed and announced it. The future tense is employed here ; but the past afterwards by St Paul, Eph. ii. 17 [with reference to the same matter].
19. Quvyv auroD, His voice) sc. from the house. This example of the lowliness and meekness of Jesus aptly precedes the mani festation of His severity in ver. 34 ; thus also He wept when about to enter Jerusalem, and then expelled them that bought and sold from the temple.
20. KdXa/Mv, a reed) In Hebrew nap.1 Jerome ad. Alga- siam,2 qusest. 2, interprets the bruised reed of Israel ; and the smoking flax, of the people congregated from the Gentiles, who, the fire of the natural law being extinguished, were enveloped in the errors of a most bitter smoke, which is hurtful to the eyes, and of a thick darkness. Whom He not only forbore to extinguish and reduce to ashes, but also, on the contrary, from the spark, ivhich ivas small and all but dying, aroused great flames, so that the whole world should burn with that fire of our Lord and Sa viour ivhich lie came to send upon earth, and desires to kindle in the hearts of all. — ou xared^ei, ou afiteti, shall He not break, shall He not quench) An instance of Litotes for " He shall especially cherish." Cf. ver. 7, ch. xi. 28 ; Isa. xlii. 3, Ixi. 1-3.
send forth, extend) In the Hebrew N'W and
1 ™p, a reed — evidently the original of the word cane, which has found its way, I believe, into every European language. Gr. K.XVVX, X.O.VUYI or X.CIVYI. Lat. Canna; Fr. Cane; Span. Cana ; Port. Cana or Canna. Cf. also the German Kancie. — (I. B.)
2 An epistle written by St Jerome to an Eastern lady of the name of Algasia, who had propounded twelve questions to him. He begins by a quaint and courteous proenrium, in which he fancifully compares her to the Queen of Sheba, and then proceeds to answer her questions in order. -(I. B.)