name. Luzzatto treated the names as a sentence, predicating (like Immanuel, 7:14 n.) something of God, and therefore implying nothing as to the child. Some of the names singly, and even more in combination, are as applied to men unparalleled in the OT, and on this account are regarded by Gressmann (p. 280ff.) as mythological and traditional: cp. also Rosenmüller’s Scholia.—Wonderful Counsellor] Like God Himself (28:29; 25:1), the Messiah will give counsel that will be exceptional, exceeding what
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