d. R. El. 3.

On Is. xi. 3 the Talmud (Sanh. 93 b, lines 21 &c. from the top) has a curious explanation.

After quoting ch. xi. 2 as Messianic, it makes a play on the words, 'of quick

understanding,' or 'scent,' as it might be rendered, and suggest that this word ωξψρηω is

intended to teach us that God has laden Him with commandments and sufferings like

millstones (Μψψξψρκ). Immediately afterwards, from the expression 'He shall not judge

after the sight of His eyes, but reprove with equity for the meek of the earth,' it is inferred

that the Messiah knew the tho ughts of the heart, and it is added that, as Bar Kokhabh was

unable to do this, he was killed.

Verse 4, 'he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth,' is Messianically applied in

the Midrash on Ps. ii. 2, and in that on Ruth ii. 14 - also in Yalkut on Is. lx.

Verse 7 has been already noticed in connection with Ex. xii. 2.

On verse 10 see our remarks on Gen. xlix. 10 and Ps. xxi. 1.

Verse 11 is Messianically applied in Yalkut (vol. i. p. 31 b and vol. ii. 38 a), as also in the

Midrash on Ps. cvii. 2.

Verse 12 is Messianically applied in that curious passage in the Midrash on Lamentations

i. 2, where it is indicated that, as the children of Israel sinned from ) to τ, so God would in

the latter days comfort them from ) to τ (i.e. through the whole alphabet), Scripture

passages being in each case quoted.

The Messianic application of Is. xii. 3 is sufficiently established by the ancient symbolic

practice of pouring out the water on the Feast of Tabernacles.

In connection with Is. xi. 5 the Midrash on Ps. cxviii. 23 first speak of the wonderment of

the Egyptians when they saw the change in Israel from servitude to glory of their Exodus,

and then adds, that the words were intended by his Holy Ghost to apply to the wonders of

the latter days (ed. Warsh. p. 85 b).

On Is. xiv . 2, see our comments on Gen. xviii. 4, 5.

Is. xiv . 29, xv . 2, xvi. 1, and xvi. 5 are Messianically applied in the Targum.

Is. xviii. 5 is similarly applied in the Talmud (Sanh. 98 a); and Is. xxiii. 15 in Sanh. 99 a.

Is. xxi. 11, 12 is in Jer. Taan. 64 a, and in Shem. R. 18, applied to the manifestation of

Is. xxiii. 8 the Midr. on Eccl. i. 7 sees a curious reference to the return of this world's

wealth to Israel in Messianic days.