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19. Mj} ovtc syvco ’i apuv\k ; Did not Israel know ?) The meaning is, that Israel could and should have known the righteousness of God, but did not wish to know it, ver. 3, and that is now shown from Moses and Isaiah. Paul in ch. ix.-xi. frequently calls the people, Israel , not Jews. — ‘xpurog Muvarjg, first Moses ) Moses, under whom Israel took the form of a people or nation, has already at that early time said. — syu — v/uug — v/uag) Deut. xxxii. 21. lxx., nqiyu — ubroitg — avrovg — ov% sQvei) This may be ex- pressed in Latin by ne-gente , a not-nation. As the people fol- lowed gods, that were no gods, so God avenges the perfidy of the people, and took up a people that was no people, a people, who had not God as their God, a people quite unlike to Israel. So the term people does not recur ver. 20, [of the Gentiles] but ver. 21 [of Israel]. — atuverv, foolish) Wisdom makes a people, Job xii. 2. Therefore a foolish people is not a nation ; [a not- nation] a people that knows not God is foolish, is a middle term, by which even Israel is denoted \jism ; applicable to the people Israel, and the not-people , the Gentiles]. The epithet denotes other nations.
20. ’ A'roroX/Acc) What Moses had merely hinted at, Isaiah boldly and openly proclaims. — si jpetiqv, I was found) I was ready at hand for, Isa. lxv. i., lxx., sp<pavrig eysvijQriv ro7g s/us ,ur\ fyrouff/v, supsOrjv ro7g s/us /ur\ eirepuruai v, I teas made manifest to them that sought Me not , I was found by them who asked not after Me.
21. "OXyjVy whole) Isa. ibid. ver. 2, LXX., s<'S‘7r'sru<fa rug ys7pug [lov oXtjv rrjv ij^spav npog x.r.A., comp, the whole day , [all the day long] ch. viii. 36, see the remarkable dissertation of J. C. Pfajfiusy on the continued grace of God. — s^wrsruffu, I extended) A metonymy [see Appen.] of the antecedent [for the conse- quent]. They permit Me to extend My hands , nor do they come. Even by this one word alone the doctrine of the double will of God, viz., a mere good-will [which is towards all men], and a will of sealing [cer£am:persons as JEIis elect ; beneplaciti et signi ; svdoxla, Luke ii. 14, good will ; but <r<ppayig , sealing as the Loris own , 2 Tim. ii. 19, or else the u voluntas beneplaciti” is God’s effectual good will towards the elect, Eph. i. 5, svdonia rou 6s\ri - fiurog aurov ; the u voluntas signi,” His mere figurative and ostensible good will, whereby it is said in accommodation to human modes of thought u God willeth all men to be saved.”
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