Unto us a Child is born already, unto us a Son is given
already. But one day or other He will be revealed, and made
manifest, and shown to men as a man; and then all the people shall
know who He is; and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor,
the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.
Ah, my friends, Isaiah saw all this but dimly and afar off. He saw
as through a glass darkly. He perhaps thought at times--indeed we
can have little doubt that he thought--that the good young Prince
Hezekiah, "The might of God," as his name means, who was growing up
in his day to be a deliverer and a righteous king over the Jews, was
to set the world right. No doubt he had Hezekiah in his mind when he
said that a Child was born to the Jews, and a Son given to them; just
as, of course, he meant his own son, who was born to him by the
virgin prophetess, when he called his name Emmanuel, that is to say,
God with us. But he felt that there was more in both things than
that. He felt that his young wife's conceiving and bearing a son,
was a sign to him that some day or other a more blessed virgin would
conceive and bear a mightier Son. And so he felt that whether or not
Hezekiah delivered the Jews from their sin, and misery, and
ignorance, God Himself would deliver them.
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