Matthew 12:21 - Exposition

And in his Name shall the Gentiles trust; hope (Revised Version). The evangelist thus completes the parallelism with the end of the first stanza ( Matthew 12:18 ) However Jews treat Messiah, Gentiles shall place their hope in his Name, which, in fact, sums up for man all that can be known of God ( Matthew 6:9 , note). In his Name. So even the LXX . But the Hebrew, "in his Law." ὀνόματι is possibly due to a confusion with νόμῳ , but is more probably merely a paraphrase bringing out more clearly the fact that the Christian religion is emphatically trust in a Person. The Gentiles ; rather, Gentiles , as such. This paraphrase for "isles" in the original is also found in the LXX . (For the whole verse, cf. Matthew 28:19 , an utterance never lost sight of by the evangelist.)