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the Jews invite all tribes and all nations ; D&6 signifies a multi- tude, and DV a political community. — -vJ/aXw, I will sing) The Gentiles sing and praise, because they have obtained mercy, Heb. mow, using the organ.
10. Asyei) viz., 6 Xsyuv. — zixppavOrirt eQvrj (Lira roD Xao£» auroO) So the lxx., Deut. xxxii. 43. Comp. Ps. lxvii. 5, the nations in the earth . The Imperative, put by apostrophe,1 is equivalent to a categorical indicative, for the promise was not made to the Gentiles. — ^sra, with) The Gentiles were not His people ; — this is mercy [ver. 9], because they are admitted notwithstanding.
11. Am/rs — xal ertcuveffoirf) Ps. cxvii. 1, LXX., u/vsTts — skuiv- s<rars.
12.1 * 'H data g, Isaiah) Three sayings had been quoted without the name of Moses and David ; he now mentions the name of Isaiah, of whose book the Haphtara (The portion publicly read in the synagogue) with this Saying, is read on the eighth day of the Passover, at that time of the year, at which this epistle seems to have been written. — g <rrai i] — xa/ 6 — «r aurw — ) Is. xi. 10, lxx. xa/ serai sv rij yj/^epcc sxsmj jj — 6 — s<ir avrbv. — i] p/£a, the root ) Christ is elsewhere called the root of David , Rev. xxii. 16; but, if we compare this passage taken from the passage in Isaiah quoted above with ver. 1, He is called the root of Jesse. The descent of kings and of the Messiah from His house was divinely ap- pointed to Jesse in His own name, before it was so in the name of David, and that descent might have been expected even from another son of Jesse, 1 Sam. xvi. 7. But David was king, not Jesse ; and the kingdom of Christ was in some measure heredi- tary from David, Luke i. 32, in respect of the Jews, but not in respect of the Gentiles. He is therefore called here, not the root of David , but, that which was next to it, the root of Jesse . The Messiah, who was to descend from Jesse, had been promised neither entirely to him, nor to the Gentiles : and yet He was bestowed on both. Those things, however, which immediately precede, where He is called the root of Jesse , and the passage, 1 Sam. xvi. 7, where it is said of the first-born son of Jesse, I
1 See Appendix. When the discourse is suddenly turned from what it began with and directed to some other person, present or absent.
2 A5 unne, praise ye) on account of grace and truth. For these things
follow in the Psalm, where Israel cries aloud to the Gentiles. — V. g.
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