and unbelief are opposed to each other, ver. 30, etc. — hi Ifia ;, for your sakes , ver. 31, 12, 15.
29. * AjuerufisXrira,) without repentance ) Truly an apostolic axiom. Something absolute is signified ; for God will not give way to the unbelief of His own people [so as to suffer it to continue] for ever. Repentance is hid from the eyes of the Lord [i.e. change of His purpose, as to raising Israel from its present spiritual ‘ death,’ is impossible with God], Hos. xiii. 14. —
//.ara, gifts) towards the Jews. — xXtj <nc, calling) towards the Gentiles.
30. xai) JI formerly admitted this particle marked with an obelus, thus f, and am now glad that Baumgarten agrees with me. — ^-rg/^o'arg, ye have not believed) unbelief falls upon [applies to"1 even those, who themselves have not heard the word of God, because they had however received it primitively in the persons of the patriarchs Adam and Noah. [The Gentiles are account- able for not having retained the revelation received from Adam, Noah, etc.]
31. ’H-xg/^ffav, they have disbelieved) They have been left to their unbelief. — rw v/Asrspw, your [of you]) the Genitive of the object, [your mercy, i.e. the mercy, of which you are the objects,'] as 7 a s X'sn Aavtd, the mercies of David , 2 Chron. vi. 42, “py pyi, the favour directed to thy people , Ps. cvi. 4. — sXki, through mercy) construed with eXeyi6w<riy might obtain mercy ; for ha, that , is often transposed ; and in verse 30, the disbelief of the Jews precedes the mercy of the Gentiles ; wherefore in verse 31 the mercy of the Gentiles does not [is not to be supposed to] precede the same disbelief of the Jews [as would be the case, if c Agg /, owing to your partaking of mercy , were taken with r^ufor <rav]. See App. crit. Ed. ii. on this passage. — &Xs yiQZmu, might obtain mercy) that mercy, which gyes before faith, and which is only acknowledged and received through faith, by which ave/Qeiu, disbelief is retracted.
32. SuvezXe id, hath concluded together ), Jews and Gentiles, comp. Gal. iii. 22, note. The phraseology of the lxx. Int., Ps. lxxviii. 50, is g ig Ouvurov c\)vsxX£i<si, He shut up to death , he
1 The German version agrees in this. — E. B.
ABCD (later correction), G fg, omit xa/, before vpii$. But Yulg. and Rec. Text, have it. — Ed.