Although His Kingdom is not of [Pg 86] this world, John xviii. 36, it is, just for that very reason, so much the more all-governing. The ἐντεῦθεν in that passage is contrasted with the words "from heaven" in Dan. ii., by which, in that passage, its absolute superiority over all the kingdoms of the world, and its crushing power are declared to be indissolubly connected.--"_The shoulder_" comes, here also, as in vers. 3 (4), chap. x. 27, into consideration in so far as on it we _bear_; comp. Gen. xlix. 15; Ps. lxxxi. 7. The bearer of an office has it, as it were, on his shoulders.--The Jewish interpreters, despairing of being able, with any appearance of truth, to apply the following attributes to Hezekiah, insist that, with the exception of the last, they denote Him who calls, not Him who is called: the Wonderful, &c., called him Prince of peace. Altogether apart from the consideration that this is in opposition to the accents, the mentioning of so many names of Jehovah is here quite unsuitable; and, in all other passages, the noun put after שמו קרא designates always him who is called. Modern Exegesis has tried everything with a view to deprive the names of their deep meaning, in order to adapt them to a Messiah in the ordinary Jewish sense, hence, to do that of which the Jews themselves had already despaired. But, in doing so, they have considered the names too much by themselves, overlooking the circumstance that the full and deeper meaning of the individual attributes, as it at first sight presents itself, must, in the connection in which they here occur, be so much the rather held fast. The names are completed in the number _four_,--the mark of that which is complete and finished. _They form two pairs, and every single name is again compounded of two names._ The first name is פלא יועץ. That these two words must be _connected_ with one another (_Theodor._--θαυμαστῶς βουλεύων) appears from the analogy of the other names, especially of אל גבּור with whom פלא יועץ forms one pair; and then from the circumstance that יועץ alone would, in this connection, be too indefinite. The words do not stand in the relation of the _Status constructus_, but are connected in the same manner as פלא אדם in Gen. xvi. 12. יועץ designates the attribute which is here concerned, while פלא points out the supernatural, superhuman degree in which the King possesses this attribute, and the infinite riches of consolation and help which are to be found in such [Pg 87] a King. As a _Counsellor_, He is a _Wonder_, absolutely elevate d above everything which the earth possesses in excellency of counselling. As פלא commonly denotes "wonder" in the strictest sense (comp. chap. xxv. 1: "I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name, for thou hast done wonders," Ps. lxxvii. 15: "Thou art the God that doest wonders;" Exod. xv. 11); as it here stands in parallelism with אל God; as the whole context demands that we should take the words in their full meaning;--we can consider