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Mat_12:19-20. Contrast to the conduct of the Jewish teachers. He will not wrangle nor cry (Lobeck, ad Phryn. p. 337), and so on.
The bruised reed and smoking wick represent those who are spiritually miserable and helpless (Mat_11:5), whom Christ does not reduce to utter hoplessness and despair, but (Mat_11:28) to whom He rather gives comfort, and whose moral life He revives and strengthens. And seeing that Mat_12:17 refers to Mat_12:16, they cannot be taken to represent the sick, whom Jesus heals (Hengstenberg). For those figures, comp. Isa_36:6; Isa_58:6; Isa_43:17.
ἕως ἂν ἐκβάλῃ κ . τ . λ .] until He shall have led forth to victory the judgment announced by Him, i.e. until He shall have finally accomplished it at the last day. For with this holding of the assize is associated the subjection to it of every hostile power. The final holding of it is the victory of the judgment.
In ἐκβάλῃ , forced out, is implied the idea of violent effort, overcoming the resistance offered. The words, however, do not correspond to the ìÆàÁîÆú éåÉòÄéà îÄùÑÀôÌÈè , Isa_42:3, but to the òÇãÎéÈùÒÄéí áÌÈàÈøÆõ îÄùÑÀôÌÈè , Mat_12:4, as is evident from ἕως , and from the words καὶ τῷ ὀνόματι , etc., which follow. But this is a very free quotation made from memory, with which, however, the expression in Mat_12:3 ( éåöéà ) is at the same time blended.