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The axiom of infinity excludes $V_{\omega }$ and all smaller stages, so the cardinal $\lambda$ is uncountable. Full semantics for second-order logic is decisive: every externally specified functional relation whose ordered pairs lie in $V_{\lambda }$ is an allowed class parameter, even if the relation itself is not an element of $V_{\lambda }$.

If $\mathrm{cf}(\lambda )=\mu <\lambda$, choose an external cofinal function $h:\mu \to \lambda$. Its graph is an allowed class parameter: each input, output and ordered pair has rank of a set below the infinite cardinal $\lambda$, which is a limit ordinal. The domain $\mu$ belongs to $V_{\lambda }$. The second-order form of Axiom schema of replacement would give its range as an element of $V_{\lambda }$. But a cofinal subset of $\lambda$ has rank of a set $\lambda$ and cannot belong to $V_{\lambda }$. Therefore $\mathrm{cf}(\lambda )=\lambda$.

If $2^{\theta }\ge \lambda$ for a cardinal $\theta <\lambda$, choice supplies an external surjection $q:\mathcal{P}(\theta )\to \lambda$. The domain belongs to $V_{\lambda }$ and the ordered pairs of its graph have ranks below $\lambda$. Applying Axiom schema of replacement to this external functional class would put its range, the ordinal $\lambda$, in $V_{\lambda }$, again impossible. Hence $2^{\theta }<\lambda$ for every $\theta <\lambda$.

ConsequentlyThese are exactly the defining conditions for a strongly inaccessible cardinal. This full second-order replacement rank obstruction would not follow from Henkin semantics, where the available class relations may exclude the external functions just used.