[185] Expositor, second series, viii., pp. 364, 365, 366.
[186] Ibid., p. 366.
[187] This, of course, goes against Prof. Briggs's theory of the composition of Isa. xl.-lxvi. out of two poems (see p. [18]).
[188] This line is full of the letter m.
[189] This is as the text is written; but the Massoretic reading gives, that Israel to Him may be gathered.
[190] So it seems best to give the sense of this difficult line, but most translators render despised of soul, or thoroughly despised, abhorred by peoples, or by a people, etc. The word for despised is used elsewhere only in ch. liii. 3.
[191] Prof. A. B. Davidson, Expositor, Second Series, viii., 441.
[192] Page 68.
[193] So George Eliot wrote of her own writings shortly before her death. See Life, iii., 245.
[194] Lady Ponsonby, to whom George Eliot wrote the letter quoted above, confessed that, with the disappearance of religious faith from her soul, there vanished also the power of interest in, and of pity for, her kind.