as with many other names in ancient Hebrew (such as Immanuel!), the statement itself refers to God even while being used as the name of a human person; indeed, such theophoric names are the majority category in the Hebrew Bible. Luzzatto therefore took the first four words together as a nominal sentence but kept the others as two independent names;116 this is taken up by, for instance, JPS: ‘the Mighty God is planning grace; The Eternal Father, a peaceable ruler’. Alternatively, Holladay, Isaiah,
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