[155] Not one word in them betrays any sense of a body of men or an ideal people standing behind them, which sense surely some expression would have betrayed, if it had been in the prophet's mind.
[156] A. B. D., in a review of the last edition of Delitzsch's Isaiah, in the Theol. Review, iv., p. 276.
[157] Isaiah I. i.-xxxix., pp. [134], [135].
[159] See ch. [ii]. of this volume.
[160] Cf. The Jewish Interpreters on Isa. liii., Driver and Neubauer, Oxford, 1877. Abravanel, who himself takes ch. liii. in a national sense, admits, after giving the Christian interpretation, that "in fact Jonathan ben Uziel, 'the Targumist,' applied it to the Messiah, who was still to come, and this is likewise the opinion of the wise in many of their Midrashim." And R. Moscheh al Shech, of the sixteenth century, says: "See, our masters have with one voice held as established and handed down, that here it is King Messiah who is spoken of." (Both these passages quoted by Bredenkamp in his commentary, p. 307.)
[161] Isa. lix. 5.
[162] Id. vi. 13; ix. 18; x. 17, 34; xlvii. 14.
[163] Id. xxi. 10; xxviii. 27; xl. 24; xli. 15 ff.
[164] Id. i. 31; xlvii. 14.