Matthew 12:18

ὁ παῖς μου. ‘My servant.’ In Isaiah’s prophecy, either (1) ‘the chosen one,’ whom Jehovah raised ‘from the north’ (Isaiah 41:25) to do his will, and bring about His people’s deliverance from the Babylonish Captivity, or (2) the nation of Israel the worker out of Jehovah’s purposes, in either case in an ultimate sense the Messiah.

κρίσιν. The Hebrew word (mishpat) is used in a wider sense than κρίσις denoting ‘rule,’ ‘plan,’ ‘ordinance,’ &c. Adhering, however, to the strict force of the Greek, we may regard κρίσις as the ‘divine sentence or decree,’ so the ‘purpose’ of God in the Gospel.

τοῖς ἔθνεσιν. Possibly our Lord in His retirement addressed Himself more especially to the Gentiles—the Greeks, Phœnicians, and others, settled near the lake. ‘They about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, … came unto Him,’ Mark 3:8.