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Matthew 12:21

Matthew 12:21

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

And in his Name shall the Gentiles trust; hope (Revised Version). The evangelist thus completes the parallelism with the end of the first stanza () However Jews treat Messiah, Gentiles shall place their hope in his Name, which, in fact, sums up for man all that can be known of God (, note).

In his Name. So even the LXX. But the Hebrew, "in his Law." ὀνόματι is possibly due to a confusion with νόμῳ, but is more probably merely a paraphrase bringing out more clearly the fact that the Christian religion is emphatically trust in a Person.

The Gentiles; rather, Gentiles, as such. This paraphrase for "isles" in the original is also found in the LXX. (For the whole verse, cf. , an utterance never lost sight of by the evangelist.

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