we see from this and from kindred passages that the Hebrew mind, in this case the Isaian tradition, is more interested in acting than in being, in the dynamic than in the static, in the historical than in the speculative, in the revelatory than in the world of ideas. Consequently all that the Servant people are anointed here to say and to do they perform not on their own initiative nor in their own strength. All that happens to them or through them is of grace, of the power of grace, in a manner