In the S. V. both verbs1 are commonly rendered by sx(3dx\siv, to extend — sis v?xos, unto victory) The LXX. frequently render ITO? (for ever) by i/$ vTxos, which is the force of the phrase in this passage ; i.e. so that nothing may resist them for ever.
20, 21. Kpisiv xat T'JJ, x.r.X.) After xpiaiv the LXX. have dva- \afjffyti xai ov dpavtf&qfftrai su$ av $5j SKI rr,s yr^c, xpiffiv, xai SKI rrjj ovofian a-iroD ?0K»j IXcr/oDff/v, lie shall shine forth, and He shall not be broken, until He establish judgment on the earth : and in His name shall the Gentiles trust. And on this verse of Isaiah (viz. xlii. 4) Jerome thus comments : " But that which follows, l He shall shine, and shall not be consumed, until He establish judgment on the earth,' Matthew the evangelist has not inserted. Or else the words between 'judgment and 'judgment' have been lost by the error of a transcriber, for which we have given this interpre tation, l He shall not be sad nor turbulent, but shall always pre serve an equability of aspect.' Aquila and Theodotion have in terpreted it, He shall not darken, and He shall not Jlee, until He establish judgment on the earth. And the meaning is, He shall repel none by the sadness of His aspect, nor be hasty to punish, since He has reserved the reality of judgment (veritatem judicii) jor the last time." The intervening passage in the Hebrew runs thus : DDK^i pxn C^B* 1J? pT &6l rim11 i6, rendered in the E.V. He shall not fail nor be discouraged (margin, be broken). Jan- sen2 rejects the suspicion of Jerome of the chasm admitted by the transcriber, but Drusius3 adopts it, not undeservedly. More-
1 Sc. S's'in the Hiphil of ss~, and DVJ. Bengel does not mean to say that the LXX. render them so in this passage (which is not the case with either of them), but that they do so elsewhere ; and, consequently, that St Matthew is justified in doing so here. — (I. B.)
2 CORNELIUS JANSENIUS (major), Bishop of Ghent, must not be con founded with his celebrated namesake, the Bishop of Ypres. He was born at Hulst, and became Professor of Divinity at Louvain. lie attended the Council of Trent; became Bishop of Ghent in 1568; and died 1576. He published, besides other works " Commentarii in suam concordiatn ac totam historiam evangelicam." Folio, Louvain, 1572. — (I. B.)
3 JOHN VAN DEN DKIESSCHE, commonly known as Johannes Drusius, was born at Oudenard, in Flanders, in 1550. He was educated at Ghent and Lou vain, after which he studied Hebrew at Oxford, where he became Professor of Oriental Languages in 1572. In 1576 he returned to Louvain, and studied Law. He became Professor of Oriental Languages at Leyden in 1577, and of Hebrew at Francker in 1585, where he died in 1616. His critical labours