Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.
Behold, my servant shall deal prudently,.... Here properly a new chapter should begin, these three last verses treating of the same person and subject as the following chapter; even of Christ, his person, offices, humiliation, and exaltation, and the effects and fruits thereof; for of him undoubtedly the whole is to be understood.
Victor F. Oehler has recently attempted to establish an opinion, to which no one had given expression before, viz. that the transition from the collective idea of the servant of God to the “Servant of God” as an individual takes place in ver. 14, where Israel is addressed in the first clause, and the Messiah referred to in the second. But our view is a totally different one.
Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. (n) Meaning Christ, by whom our spiritual deliverance would be wrought of which this was a sign.