with Delitzsch, could look rather to the opening words, 'The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him', the Spirit here being taken as the communicator of the whole creative fullness of the divine powers; but this does not after all make a seventh gift.[1]
The text of the Authorized Version is well known, and it can hardly be improved,, except perhaps in the last phrase:
'The spirit of the Lord shall be upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.'
And the passage proceeds with the words—in the Revised Version—about his delight in the fear of the Lord, and about his not judging by hearsay, but arbitrating with equity for the humble and helpless, and smiting the terrible and slaying the wicked— thoughts often recalled during the war, and never far from the mind of the social reformer.
The description is clear, and commentators have not obscured it. Swete merely substitutes 'power' for 'might', and follows Delitzsch in seeing six pairs, the first pair referring to the intellectual life, the second to the practical life, and the third to the immediate relation with God. Delitzsch says that Wisdom is the power of recognizing the
