Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 12:18

18 Behold, my servant, whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my Soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him; and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.

The Alteration is very little, and we must not expect to meet with Quotations out of the Old Testament Verbatim: It is enough that the Sense is the same. Behold my Servant whom I have chosen▪ The word indifferently signifieth a Child or a Servant, Christ is called the Lords Servant, because he took upon him the Form of a Servant, and became Obedient even to Death, Phil. 2.7, 8. Whom I have chosen, my Beloved in whom my Soul is well pleased, in Isaiah it is, whom I uphold, mine Elect in whom my Soul delighteth. Matthew seems to have left out whom I uphold, and to have taken the next Words, mine Elect: And to have tr[illegible: 1 letter]nslated them, whom I have chosen, which [illegible: 1 letter]as all said by the Prophet. God chose the Lord Jesus Christ to be our Redeemer, and the Head of the Elect, hence we are said to be chosen in him, Eph. 1.4. Peter saith, he was Fore-ordained, 1 Pet. 1.20. & 2.6. he is▪ called a chief Corner st[illegible: 2 letters]e, Elect, my Beloved in whom I am well pleased. In Isaiah it is, in whom my Soul delighteth. The Sense is the same: He shall bring forth Iudgment to the Gentiles, or to the Nations. The Words [non-Latin text not transcribed], in the Hebrew, [non-Latin text not transcribed] in the Greek, and Iudgment in the English are also variously used, as gives Interpreters a great Latitude to abound in their Senses. The most probable to me is this. Iudgment signifies a thing adjudged: All Judgment is, either of Approbation, or Condemnation. He shall bring forth, or he shall shew the things, which God approveth and Judgeth right, both in matters of Doctrine, Worship, and the Government of the Church of God, and in matters which concern the Government of mens Lives and Conversations▪ and to this end God promiseth to put his Spirit upon him, so Isa. 11.2. & 61.1. and Iohn tells us, it was not given him by measure, Ch. 3.34. which is the same, with being anointed with the Oyl of Gladness above his Fellows, Psal. 45.7. which the Apos[illegible: 1 letter]le applieth to Christ, Heb. 1.9.

Marginal references: Isa. 42.1.; Chap. 3.17. & 17.5.