[163] _Id._ xxi. 10; xxviii. 27; xl. 24; xli. 15 ff. [164] _Id._ i. 31; xlvii. 14. [165] Isa. lviii. 7. [166] Undoubtedly taken from Isa. liii. [167] _Cf._ with the Greek version of Isa. l. 4-7, Luke xviii. 31, 32; Matt. xxvi. 67. [168] In Isa. xl.-lxvi. the Septuagint translates the Hebrew for Servant by one or other of two words--παις and δουλος. Παις is used in xli. 8; xlii. 1; xliv. 1 ff.; xliv. 21; xlv. 4; xlix. 6; l. 10; lii. 13. But δουλος is used in xlviii. 20; xlix. 3 and 5. In the Acts it is παις that is used of Christ: "An apostle is never called παις (but only δουλος) Θεου" (Meyer). But David is called παις (Acts iv. 25). [169] Acts iii. 13, 26; iv. 27-30. [170] Acts iii. 14; vii. 52. [171] Acts viii. 30 ff. [172] 1 Peter i. 19; ii. 22, 23; iii. 18. [173] Rom. xv. 20 f.; 2 Cor. v. 21. [174] Acts xiii. 47, after Isa. xlix. 6. [175] Isa. l. 8, and Rom. viii. 33, 34. [176] 2 Tim. ii. 24. We may note, also, how Paul in Eph. vi. takes the armour with which God is clothed in Isa. lix. 17, breastplate and helmet, and equips the individual Christian with them; and how, in the same passage, he takes for the Christian from Isa. xl. the Messiah's girdle of truth and the _sword of the Spirit,--he shall smite the land with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked_. CHAPTER XVIII. _THE SERVICE OF GOD AND MAN._ ISAIAH xlii. 1-7. We now understand, whom to regard as the Servant of the Lord. The Service of God was a commission to witness and prophesy for God upon earth, made out at first in the name of the entire nation Israel. When their unfitness as a whole became apparent, it was delegated to a portion of them. But as there were added to its duties of prophecy, those of martyrdom and atonement for the sins of the people, our prophet, it would seem, saw it focussed in the person of an individual. In history Jesus Christ has fulfilled this commission both in its national and in its personal aspects. He realised the ideal of the prophet-people. He sacrificed Himself and made atonement for the sins of men. But having illustrated the service of God in the world, Christ did not exhaust it. He returned it to His people, a more clamant conscience than ever, and He also gave them grace to fulfil its demands. Through Christ the original destination of these prophecies becomes, as Paul saw, their ultimate destination as well. That Israel refused this Service or failed in it only leaves it more clearly to us as duty; that Jesus fulfilled it not only confirms that duty, but adds hope and courage to discharge it.