rew: rcC], for
[Hebrew: irC], and that in the appropriate signification: "He shall not
be broken." (Thus it was probably [Pg 218] viewed by the Chaldean
Paraphrast who renders [Hebrew: la ilai] _non laborabit_; by the LXX.,
who translate [Greek: ou thrauthsesetai], while _Aquila_ and
_Symmachus_, according to the account of _Jerome_, render, _non
curret_, thus following the derivation from [Hebrew: rvC]). As [Hebrew:
ikhh] points back to [Hebrew: khh] in the preceding verse, so, in that
case [Hebrew: irvC] would point back to [Hebrew: rcvC] "He shall not
break that which is bent, nor quench that which is dimly burning; but
neither shall He himself be broken or quenched." But this explanation
is opposed by the circumstance, that we must make up our minds to admit
a double anomaly. The territories of the two verbs [Hebrew: rcC] and
[Hebrew: rvC] are everywhere else kept distinct, and the former
everywhere else means "to break," and not "to be broken." In the only
passage, Eccl. xii. 6, brought forward in support of this irregularity,
[Hebrew: rvC] "to run," "to flee away," being in parallelism with
[Hebrew: nrHq] "to be removed," is quite appropriate; just as in the
second clause of that verse [Hebrew: rvC] "to be crushed," is in
parallelism with [Hebrew: nwbr] "to be broken."--[Hebrew: aiiM] are, in
the _usus loquendi_ of Isaiah, not so much the real islands, as rather
the islands in the sea of the world, the countries and kingdoms;
compare remarks on Rev. vi. 14, and Ps. xcvii. 1 (second Edition). The
_law_ for which the islands wait is not so much a ready-made code of
laws, as the single decisions of the living Lawgiver, which the
Gentiles, with anxious desire, shall receive as their rule in all
circumstances, after they have spontaneously submitted to the dominion
of the Servant of God, having been attracted by His loving
dispensations. Several unphilologically translate: "for His
_doctrine_," which does not even give a good sense, for it is not the
doctrine which is waited for; its value is known only after it has been
preached. The Servant of God appears here as the spiritual Ruler of the
nations; and this He becomes by being, in the fullest sense, the
Servant of God, so that His will is not different from the will of God,
nor [Hebrew: tvrh] from that of God, just as, in a lower territory,
even Asaph speaks the bold word: "Hear, my people, my law." "The singer
comes forth as one who has full authority, the 'Seer' and