וַאֲשֶׁר מֵהֶם יָצָא הַמָּשִׁיחַ לְפִי בְשָׂרוֹ אֲשֶׁר הוּא אֵל עַל־הַכֹּל מְבֹרָךְ לְעוֹל מִים אָמֵו
[152] For this rendering, rather than the alternative, "_Blessed for ever be the God who is over all_," see the reasons offered below, p. 261.
[153] Mal. i. 2, 3.--It is plain that "_hatred_" in such a connexion (and cp. Matt. vi. 24, Luke xiv. 26) need mean no more than relative repudiation. No personal animosity is in question, but a decisive rejection of a rival claim. See Grimm's _N. T. Lexicon_ (Thayer), _s.v._ μισεῖν.
[154] Observe the vital personality of the phrase; "_the Scripture speaks_." Cp. Gal. iii. 8 for perhaps the strongest example of the kind.
[155] Cp. Psal. lxxxi. 12, and above, i. 24, 26.
[156] In the Hebrew, literally, "_I will pity the not-pitied one_" (feminine, of the idealized people or church; so in the Greek here, ἠγαπημένην). Divine "_pity_" is more than "akin to" divine "_love_."
[157] i. 10 (Hebrew, ii. 1).
[158] Ὑπέρ: with the thought of a _lament over_ the ruined ones. The preposition appears here in its original and literal meaning.
[159] Isa. x. 22, 23: perhaps with an insertion of the phrase, "_the number of_," from Hos. i. 10. As to wording, he quotes freely from the Hebrew, more nearly from the Lxx. But the substance is identical as compared with both. Following considerable documentary evidence, we omit here the Greek words represented by "_in righteousness; because a short work_."
[160] The equivalent of the Lxx. for the "very small _remnant_" (שׂריד) of the Hebrew.
[161] For the seventh and last time he uses this characteristic phrase.
[162] Δέ: in slightly suggested contrast to the ideal of the Jew, a _merited_ acceptance.
[163] Omit here the word δικαιοσύνης.
[164] Omit τοῦ νόμου.
[165] Omit γάρ.
[166] Omit πᾶς.