This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...as Israel, has the support of a number of passages in this poem, wherein there can be no doubt that the Jews as a nation are referred to as the chosen, the elect, the beloved servant of Jehovah, who are to do a great work in the world. The really weak point in this application is, that comparatively few interpreters ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...as Israel, has the support of a number of passages in this poem, wherein there can be no doubt that the Jews as a nation are referred to as the chosen, the elect, the beloved servant of Jehovah, who are to do a great work in the world. The really weak point in this application is, that comparatively few interpreters carry it out consistently in the other passages, where, as here, the servant of God is spoken of as an individual. When the Jews as a nation are thus addressed, it is very plain from the context that no individual nor single personage can be meant. But in those passages where the Servant is spoken of in the singular, both grammatically and in idea or conception, the interpretation should be uniform. It cannot be held to mean a people at one time, 1 Isa. xlv. 3 Isa. xlvi. 11. the righteous portion of the people at another, and still at another an individual, Cyrus, or Isaiah, or some unknown prophet slain by the Jews in Babylon, or Hezekiah, or Jeremiah, or Judas Maccabeus, or the Kabbi Akiba. Some writers, both among Jews and Rationalists, do maintain the application to the Jewish people throughout, but as a rule the difficulty of making a collective term apply to many of the most important passages wherein the servant appears, or speaks, or acts, or suffers and dies, is so great that some purely individual fulfilment must sooner or later be sought for. Moreover, it has not been much in accordance with either Jewish character or temper to apply some of the features of this individual portrait to their nation. Though they may have been content to be called a light amoug the Gentiles, there never has been anything more distasteful to the Jew than the idea that foreign nations might also become the covenanted people of God. This line was always sha...
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