over, since the Evangelist, in the whole of this passage, (lifters widely from the words of the LXX., you will not easily discover by what Greek words the Hebrew hemistich of Isaiah has been expressed in St Matthew. The sentence itself, indeed, most becomingly expresses the placid and moderate action of the Messiah. See Apparatus, p. 4741 [2d Edition, p. 118].
21. K«/, X.T.X., and, etc.) Jerome ad. Algasium, in the passage cited above, refers to these words those of Isaiah. He shall shine, and shall not be broken, until He establish judgment on the earth : so that, says he, the light of His preaching shall at length shine forth in the world, and [He] be consumed and overcome by the devices of no one, until He establish judgment on the earth, and that be fuljilled which was written, Thy will be done, as in heaven so on earth. — Ivopari, name) In the Hebrew the word is min, law. The whole Gospel is a discourse on the name of Christ.
22. Aai/Aovify/Aivos, one jwssessed with a devil) extremely miser able. — xai XaXtw Kul (3Xe<reiv, both spake and saw) The order of the miracle appears to be thus expressed.
24. 'Axoiffamc, when they heard) sc. what the people said. — olrog, this) man. A contemptuous mode of expression.2 [E.V.
are highly esteemed, and he was honoured by the approval of the great Scaliger.— (I. B.)
The margin of the larger Ed. holds the proposed insertion of the words (Jerome's) doubtful. The margin of the 2d Ed. and the Germ. Vers. alto gether omit them. — E. B.
1 In the Apparatus he says, " Ob recurrens judicii verbum [i.e. xpiaiv], colon Jesajse hoc loco per errorem excidisse putat Hieronymus, dissentiente Jansenio, assentiente Drusio ; et in Evang. Hebr. [the Gospel according to the Hebrews : an Apocryphal production so called] plena prophetse periocha reponitur : quanquam hoc colo Eusebius caret. Certe hsec sententia magno- pere congruit cum sensu Matthsei, sive ipse earn repetiit, sive ex Jesaja re- petendam innuit : nee vero sine ea videtur repetiturus fuisse ulterius illud. Et in ejus nomine gentes sperabunt." Bengel has, however, omitted the clause in his own German Version. — (I. B.)
Grotius rightly opposes the insertion of the words. What Isaiah, xlii. 3, repeated twice, viz. "bring forth judgment unto truth," ver. 4, " set judg ment on the earth ;" Matthew omitting the poetic pleonasm, condenses into one, and takes the ' until' from ver. 4, and " bring forth judgment to victory" from ver. 3. He also expresses the sense of the last clause of verse 3 (" bring forth judgment unto truth") more fully. — ED.
2 Of what great moment a very few words may be. — V. g.