24. Oug xai, whom also) xa also , in chap. viii. 30, Cluverus : whom (having been previously prepared for glory) He hath also called. — huXsffev, called) in some respects an antithesis to, He endured , ver. 22. Again, I will call , occurs in the next verse. — ii flag, us) This gnome1 leads Paul to come to the proposition
1 ‘ Noerna,’ a gnome or religious and moral sentiment appertaining to human life and action. — See Appendix.
respecting grace, which is laid open to J ews and Gentiles ; and he proceeds to refute the Jewish Particularism, and to defend the universality of grace. — ov [aovov i J, not only from ) The believ- ing Jew is not called on the very ground that he is a Jew, but he is called from the Jews. This is the root of the word hxXr^/a. [The epistle to the Ephesians most especially corresponds to this whole section , as well as to the exhortation , chapters xiv. xv., deduced from it. — V. g.] — Tovdaiuv, from the Jews ) He treats of this at ver. 27. — Jg from the Gentiles ) He treats of this,
ver. 25, etc.
25. A sysiy saith ) God. Paul asserted the prior right of God
in calling the Gentiles, and their actual calling, and now at last that the event is shown, he brings in one testimony from the Old Testament, and cli. xv. 9, etc., a number more in succession, by a method worthy of notice. The predictions, though nume- rous and quite clear from their fulfilment, yet in the first in- stance do not easily obtain belief. The strength of the following quotation is not in the verb xaXetu I will call [ name ], but in the other part of the expression : ixaXg<rsv, He called, is used as in viii. 30. Nevertheless naming immediately accompanies calling , and in a manner precedes it. — xaXiau rov ov Xaov ju,ov, Xaov /xov. %a) rfy ovx iiya^Yifjjhriv^ I will call them my people , who
were not my people , and her helovecl who was not beloved , Hos. ii. 25. The lxx. have, And I will have mercy on her , on whom 1 have not had mercy , and I will say to them who are not my people , thou art my people. — [xa/ sXsyjffoj rijv ovx.TiXsrjfisvTiv. xai spoj rti ov Xa & H>ov, Xuog (Jjov sJ gv.] — fiyam/ifAevriv loved) as one betrothed, as a bride.
26. xa/' — sm? xXyiQyitfovrcu — irog) Hos. ii. 1, LXX. xa/ — xX?j0?j- ffovroti xa/ a vroi — -Zfjvrog. — Ixs?) there : So it is not necessary for them to change their country and betake themselves to Judaea, comp. Zeph. ii. 11.
27. Kpafyi) crieth. See Isa. x. 22, where the accents also may be compared. Israel utters an opposing reclamation [ cries against] : Isaiah with a still louder exclamation [cry] declares, a remnant shall be saved. — Imp) for Israel, Fr. en faveur, in behalf of. — Id v h o apidfAog rdv v/ouv ’itfpurjX — xardXsi/x/xa — <7 roirjffsi K vpiog Inti rr\g yr\g) Isa. x. 22, 23, LXX., xa/' edvyevqrat 6 Xaog’l GparfX — xaraXsi^a avruv — Kvpiog <7roi7](Su h ri ) ohcov^e vy oXrr In the last clause Sym-