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? (Isaiah 42:19)
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Commentary:
As he that is perfect.—Strictly speaking, the
devoted, or surrendered
one. The Hebrew meshullam is interesting, as connected with the modern Moslem and Islam, the man resigned to the will of God.
As he that is
perfect; rather, as
he that receives reward from me(see Proverbs 11:31; Proverbs 13:13).
The word used is connected etymologically with the Arabic muslim (our "Moslem");
as he that is perfect] R.V. has, “as he that is at peace with me.” The
meaning of the Heb. měshullâm (a
proper name in 2 Kings 22:3; Ezra 8:16, and
often) is uncertain. Many take it as the equivalent of the Arabic “Moslim,” =
“the surrendered one” (Cheyne, Comm.).
George Haydock's Catholic
Bible Commentary
Isaiah 42
Sold. Hebrew Cimshullam, (Haydock) the perfect, or
favoured. The Turks call "believers" Musselmans.(Calmet)
Keil & Delitzsch
Commentary on the Old Testament
Isaiah 42
but one allied in peace and friendship, the
confidant of God. It is the passive of the Arabic muslim, one who trusts
in God
E.W. Bullinger's Companion
Bible Notes
Isaiah 42
perfect = an intimate friend or trusted one. Hebrew. me"shullam (plural of shalam), to be at peace with.
Compare 2 Samuel 20:19. Job 22:21. Psalms 7:4. It is from this word we
have Mussulman and Moslem
The People's Bible by Joseph
Parker
Isaiah 42
The
servant that ought to have seen everything sees nothing; the messenger that
ought to have the hearing ear has lost his faculty of hearing; and he that
ought to have been perfect is blind. A curious word is this which is
rendered "perfect." In sound it is like
"Moslem," and it means literally, the resigned man. That is what
Moslem affects to be. That is the very genius of Islam, the resigned man; the
man who says he will make no effort, because what will be will be; he need not
bestir himself in the morning, because he can effect nothing by all his labour
and energy; he will resign himself to the rocking of nature, and be lulled to
rest by its soothing movement.
“Submit to God and be at peace with him; in this way prosperity will come to you. (Job 22:21)
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