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Isaiah 42:3

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

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Isaiah 42:3. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.

How exactly these words describe the Lord Jesus! He was so gentle that he did not break or break off the bruised reeds. We read that he did not answer the Scribes and Pharisees. They were so powerless - such bruised reeds in his esteem - such worthless, smoking flaxes - that he let them alone until bye-and-bye he came to bring forth judgment unto victory. And now the weak, the feeble, the gentle the poor in spirit, shall never find Christ deal hardly with them. "The bruised reed he will not break: the smoking flax he will not quench."

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