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mercy , ver. 19. The Lord did not disclose even to Moses without some time intervening, to whom He would show grace and mercy, although the question was respecting Moses and the people of Israel alone, not respecting the Gentiles. To this Moses, then, not merely to others by Moses (Mw<r5j, says Paul, as presently after, ru> <£a pau) the Lord spoke thus : By My proclamation , and by My most abundant working , subsequently , / will designate [mark out] him , as the object of grace and mercy, whosoever he be , whom 1 make the object of grace and mercy. By these words He intimated, that He would make proclamation [would reveal His own character] as regards grace and mercy ; and He shortly after accordingly made proclamation, Ex. xxxiv. 5, |13ni Dim [OIKTIPMflN xod EAEHMflN x.r.A. z/g %/X/aiSag], merciful and gracious , etc., to thousands ; and added [xa i rov hoygov ov xuQapieT, effdyuv dfiapr'tag rfotrepotv, x.r.A.], and He will not clear the guilty , etc. Therefore according to the subsequent proclamation itself, the following meaning of the previous promise comes clearly out : I will show thee the most abundant grace , even to that degree that thou mayest see concerning Me [see centred in Me] all whatsoever thou dost both desire and canst receive [comprehend] in order that thou mayest furthermore understand , that it is [all of] grace ; and for this reason inasmuch as I have once for all embraced thee m grace , which thou acknowledgest to be grace ; and as to the rest of the people, I will show them the most abundant mercy, in not visit- ing them with immediate destruction for their idolatry, that they may further understand it to be mercy ; and for this reason inas- much as I have once for all embraced them in mercy, which thou in their behalf acknowledgest to be mercy. The LXX. Int. and Paul have expressed the meaning of this sentence by the differ- ence between the present and future tense : ov civ s\eoj, xai
ojxrstpqffo) ov civ oixretpco, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion . And there is the figure Ploce [see Appen.], which nearly signifies the same as below, ch. xiii. 7, and here it expresses the liberty of the Agent, of whom the apostle is speaking, as in Ex. xvi. 23. Moreover, each of the two verbs, placed in the two clauses \i.e. repeated twice], contains the emphasis in the former clause ; [ i.e . the emphasis is on the verb in each of the two clauses on its first mention, not on it when repeated ; I will have mercy, on whom I