Tonight we will continue with discussing Isaiah 42 and Matthew 12:20.

Daniel Featley, 1582-1645 - Whether by 1) bruised reed we understand the broken Scepter of the Jewish Kingdom; and 2) by smoking flax to represent the priesthood of Aaron, which destitute of the light of faith, is now ready to go out and expire; 3) or the shaken reed (as S. Hierome read the words) we conceive the wavering faith of the Jews to be meant; and 4) by the smoking flax, the momentary fervor of the Gentiles, which is Tertullian's exposition, seconded by Rhemigius: 5) or we take the bruised reeds for the mutilated bodies of such as were brought to Christ; 6) and smoking flax, for their troubled minds and distressed consciences: 7) or we are carried with the main current of later interpreters, who are all strongly for all penitent sinners oppressed with the heavy burden of their sinners, and stricken with the horror of Gods judgments, in whom there remains any sparkle of grace, to be shadowed under the Metaphors of the bruised Reed and smoking flax.

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