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29. N ai xai sdvuv, yea also of the Gentiles [although they are without the law. — Y. g.], as nature teaches, and the Old Tes- tament prophecies.
30. Ecrg/Vsf,1 seeing that indeed ) The inference is : if justifi- cation be by the law, then the Gentiles, who are without the law, cannot be justified ; and yet they also rejoice in God, as a justifier, ch. iv. 16.- — slg) iig, 6 Qibg, one , namely God; the relative who depends on one , as its antecedent. — bixaidcu, shall justify) The future, as we find it in many other passages, ch. i. 17, iii. 20, v. 19, 27 ; 2 Cor. iii. 8, therefore, we have in express terms, fjusXXovrog , that was to come , ch. v. 14 ; /u'eXXsi, will be , ch. iv. 24. Paul speaks as if he were looking forward out of the Old Testament [from the Old Testament stand-point] into the New. It is to this that those expressions refer, ex. gr ., foreseeing , Gal. iii. 8 ; the promise , ib. 14 ; the hope , ib. v. 5. So John is said to be about to come , Matt. xi. 14, xvii. 11 ; the wrath to come , Matt. iii. 7, where we have the discourse of the forerunner, which presupposes the threatenings.2 — fa did, of or out of [by, Engl. Vers.] — through ) The Jews had been long ago in the faith ; the Gentiles had lately obtained faith from them. So through is used, ver. 22 ; Eph. ii. 8 y of or out of [by, fa] in a number of passages. It is well [right] by all means to com- pare the same difference in the particles in ch. ii. 27 ; and dif- ference in the thing signified [i.e., the different footing of the Jew and Gentile] ch. xi. 17, etc. — bid rijg) He does not say, bid rrjv <zt<sri\i, on account of faith, but through faith.
31. N0/40V, the law) This declaration is similar to the de- claration of our Lord, Matt. v. 17. — iarufiiv, we establish) while we defend [uphold] that which the law witnesseth to, ver. 20, 21, and while we show, how satisfaction is truly made to the law through Christ.
1 So AG ; “ quoniam quidem unus ” fg Yulg. Iren. 186j 259. But ABC Orig. 4,228a, read ei^rsp slg ; “ si quidem unus,” in g. — Ed.
2 i.e., the wrath to come is taken for granted from the Old Testament ; John’s part is to warn them to flee from it —
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