Piotr Bartoszek launches a dialogic reading of Isa 42:1-4 and the corresponding quotation in Matt 12:18-21 in a pragmatic perspective. The evident intertextual link permits to evaluate the attitude of the Servant of YHWH from two perspectives, taking advantage of two interrelated interpretive frameworks offered both by Isaiah's and Matthew's contexts. The silent and inoffensive attitude of the Servant, though commonly understood as his virtue, in the light of the contextual data should be rather seen as clearly incompatible with his election and the mission which he is destined to fulfil. Matthew as an original reader of Isaiah's pragmatic purpose regarding the silent Servant of the Lord

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Piotr Bartoszek is Catholic priest and biblical scholar, assistant professor at the Institute of Biblical Studies of the Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Wroclaw, Poland. He studied in several academic centers as Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Studium Biblicum Franciscanum of Jerusalem. He teaches Old Testament exegesis.