4. Messiah, as "the servant of Jehovah" ( Isaiah 42:1 ), declares that the office has been assigned to Him of encouraging the "weary" exiles of Israel by "words in season" suited to their case; and that, whatever suffering it is to cost Himself, He does not shrink from it ( Isaiah 50:5 ; Isaiah 50:6 ), for that He knows His cause will triumph at last ( Isaiah 50:7 ; Isaiah 50:8 ). learned —not in mere human learning, but in divinely taught modes of instruction and eloquence ( Isaiah 49:2 ; Exodus 4:11 ; Matthew 7:28 ; Matthew 7:29 ; Matthew 13:54 ). speak a word in season — ( Proverbs 15:23 ; Proverbs 25:11 ). Literally, "to succor by words," namely, in their season of need, the "weary" dispersed ones of Israel ( Proverbs 25:11- : ). Also, the spiritual "weary" ( Isaiah 42:3 ; Matthew 11:28 ). wakeneth morning by morning, c.—Compare "daily rising up early" ( Jeremiah 7:25 Mark 1:35 ). The image is drawn from a master wakening his pupils early for instruction. wakeneth . . . ear —prepares me for receiving His divine instructions. as the learned —as one taught by Him. He "learned obedience," experimentally, "by the things which He suffered"; thus gaining that practical learning which adapted Him for "speaking a word in season" to suffering men ( Mark 1:35- : ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-5" class="com-number"
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