Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
MESSIAH THE ANTITYPE OF CYRUS. (Isa. 42:1-25)
my servant--The law of prophetic suggestion leads Isaiah from Cyrus to the far greater Deliverer, behind whom the former is lost sight of. The express quotation in Matthew 12:18-20, and the description can apply to Messiah alone (Psalms 40:6; with which compare Exodus 21:6; John 6:38; Philippians 2:7). Israel, also, in its highest ideal, is called the "servant" of God (Isaiah 49:3). But this ideal is realized only in the antitypical Israel, its representative-man and Head, Messiah (compare Matthew 2:15, with Hosea 11:1). "Servant" was the position assumed by the Son of God throughout His humiliation.
elect--chosen by God before the foundation of the world for an atonement (1 Peter 1:20; Revelation 13:8). Redemption was no afterthought to remedy an unforeseen evil (Romans 16:25-26; Ephesians 3:9, Ephesians 3:11; 2 Timothy 1:9-10; Titus 1:2-3). In Matthew 12:18 it is rendered "My beloved"; the only beloved Son, beloved in a sense distinct from all others. Election and the love of God are inseparably joined.
soul--a human phrase applied to God, because of the intended union of humanity with the Divinity: "I Myself."
delighteth--is well pleased with, and accepts, as a propitiation. God could have "delighted" in no created being as a mediator (compare Isaiah 42:21; Isaiah 63:5; Matthew 3:17).
spirit upon him-- (Isaiah 11:2; Isaiah 61:1; Luke 4:18; John 3:34).
judgment--the gospel dispensation, founded on justice, the canon of the divine rule and principle of judgment called "the law" (Isaiah 2:3; compare Isaiah 42:4; Isaiah 51:4; Isaiah 49:6). The Gospel has a discriminating judicial effect: saving to penitents; condemnatory to Satan, the enemy (John 12:31; John 16:11), and the wilfully impenitent (John 9:39). Matthew 12:18 has, "He shall show," for "He shall bring forth," or "cause to go forth." Christ both produced and announced His "judgment." The Hebrew dwells most on His producing it; Matthew on His announcement of it: the two are joined in Him.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Isaiah 41:29
Isaiah 42:3
Isaiah 42:9
Isaiah 42:19
Isaiah 42:21
Isaiah 44:28
Isaiah 49:7
Isaiah 50:4
Isaiah 50:5
Isaiah 51:4
Isaiah 51:16
Isaiah 52:13
Isaiah 53:11
Isaiah 62:2
Ezekiel 34:23
Ezekiel 34:24
Obadiah 1:17
Micah 5:2
Haggai 2:23
Zechariah 3:4
Zechariah 3:8
Zechariah 9:9
Zechariah 13:7
Matthew 3:17
Matthew 12:17
Acts 3:13
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