Verse 20
“Until he send forth (thrust forth) judgment (righteous truth) unto victory.”
For the Servant the victory is assured. He will send forth His righteous truth until He is finally triumphant. Nothing will be able to prevent His success, for God is with Him and His all-prevailing Spirit is upon Him. For some the righteous truth will result in eternal life, for others it will result in everlasting punishment (Matthew 25:46). There may here be a connection to a reading of Isaiah 25:8, as cited by Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:54, where ‘death is swallowed up in victory’. That will be the final triumph. For His greatest act of thrusting forth judgment unto victory would be the cross, where justice was satisfied, the Enemy was defeated (Colossians 2:15) and true righteousness became available to men (2 Corinthians 5:21).
In Matthew 9:38 the disciples were to pray that labourers be ‘thrust forth’ into the harvest fields. Perhaps they are to be seen as involved in His ‘thrusting forth’ of righteous truth here.
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