are not defined by the law; for as under the law follows, although even those, who observed the laws of Noah, might have been called men occupying a place midway between the Jews under the law and men without the law. — ug vn'o vbfbov) dSv abrbg bno vofiov is subjoined in the oldest copies.1 * * * * * It was an omission easily made in others from the recurrence of the word vb^ov. — robg) The article seems to be put here not so much for the sake of emphasis as of necessity, as bnb under follows.
21. ’Avo/iovg) This is here used in that sense, which the meaning of the primitive word precisely produces, as avvnoruxrov, Heb. ii. 8. — cog avo>og, as without law), by omitting things that may be omitted in regard to things ceremonial. — w &v avopog, who am not without the law) Paul was not ( anomus ) without the law , much less was he (antinomus) opposed to the law. — ^ uvo^og, Qeti, dXX9 svvo/jjog Xpurrti) Xpnsrog , &sov sari, iii. 23 : whence, he who is with- out the law to God , a voju^og 0sw, is also without the law to Christ , uvofjjog Xpnfrti : he who is under the law to Christ , evvo/xog Xpntru, is under the law to God , Impog 0sp. Concerning the law of Christ, comp. Gal. vi. 2, note. "Evvopog has a milder meaning than uvro vbfiov.
22. Tovg dffdsvsTg, the weak) The article is not added to ’ lovbodoug ,
nor to dvofiovg. It is added to atdevs/g, because he is chiefly speaking of them, viii. 7 : and all these are easily gained, if they be rightly treated. — ysyova, I am become) When the verb is thus put [in the Perf. middle, a tense almost present in meaning], the transition is easily made from the past to the present
cro/fiD.
23. ”lva Gwyxoivtovhg avrou yevu/jja,/) The 2i)v and y/vo/Aa/ show great modesty. Those things which follow, are referred to this verse, as to the proposition [the theme to be handled]. — avrob, of it) of the Gospel and salvation ; comp, the words, I might save , ver. 22.
24. Obx, o’/dare, know ye not ?) The comparison is to a thing
1 And, therefore, both in the margin of the 2d Ed. it is elevated from the