Verse 19
As my messenger that I sent "As he to whom I have sent my messengers" - אשלח כמלכי kemalachey eshlach , ut ad quem nuncios meos misi . The Vulgate and Chaldee are almost the only interpreters who render it rightly, in consistence with the rest of the sentence, and in perfect agreement with the Hebrew idiom; according to which the ellipsis is to be thus supplied: אשלח מלאכי כלאשר kelaasher malachey eshlach ; "As he to whom I have sent my messengers."
As he that is perfect "As he who is perfectly instructed" - See note on Isaiah 44:2 ; (note).
And blind as the Lord's servant "And deaf, as the servant of Jehovah" - For ועור veivver , and blind, we must read וחרש vecheresh , and deaf: κωφος , Symmachus, and so a MS. The mistake is palpable, and the correction self-evident, and admissible though there had been no authority for it.
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