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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 24, 1860

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 16, No. 10.

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To Correspondents.

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"Who is the 'servant' and 'messenger' spoken of in Isa. xlii, 19? Is it the same that is spoken of in verses 1 and 2?" M. F. C.
The passage reads thus: "Who is blind but my servant, or deaf as my messenger that I sent? Who is blind as he that is perfect and blind as the Lord's servant?" We think reference is here had to Christ; for the same person is doubtless brought to view as by the word servant in the first verse, which all agree refers to Christ. What then is meant by his being blind and deaf? The Comprehensive Commentary has the following note upon this passage:
"I think we are to understand this as alluding to the agent employed by the Lord; that is, he was so absorbed with his message as to be blind and deaf to all other attractions. When the Yogee affects to deliver a message from the gods or when he speaks of futurity, he is as one who is blind and deaf, and so insensible to external things, that whatever sights may pass before his vision, or whatever sounds fall upon his ear, he appears altogether insensible to their power." Robinson, Jenks.