s, created; comp. ver. 15, ["to make," or " create, in Himself of twain one new man"], made spiritually out of nothing. We are elsewhere said to be regenerated. Nothing produces nothing. Believers of after ages are not only 170 DJ?, a people born, Ps. xxii. 32 (31), but also K"QJj a people created, cii. 19 (18). — twi) for the sake of good works ; so that thenceforth at last we should devote ourselves to them.1 On that ground, Paul never calls the works of the law good. — o7$) o7$ — sv avroTg, Di~Q ~\W$, for sv o7g, in which. — ffpoyroifAaffw) The irpb ascribes the whole matter to God. firo'iftaoev is used as a neuter verb with great force, LXX., 2 Chron. i. 4, on qroipaffev avry Aavid, because David made preparation for it. So uars Iroi^aGai avr&, so as to make ready for Him, Luke ix. 52. God hath so prepared? [Grace, therefore, with (as well as) salvation, precedes works. — V. g.] — ffspttfarjiauftsv, that we should walk) not, that ive should be saved, or, we should live.
11. Mv»j/ttovetifrg, remember) Such remembrance sharpens gra titude and strengthens faith, ver. 19. — ra shy) D^n, the Gentiles. sv <rapx}, in the flesh) Paul purposely joins this expression with Gentiles, for the Jews simply called the Gentiles the uncircum- cision, not the uncircumcision in the flesh. — o't \sy6/&svoi axpofSvffrfa, who are called uncircumcision) intended as a great insult to you. The word called, masc. and neut. (Xsyo/^svo/, Xeyo/Agi^s), applied to the uncircumcision and the circumcision, shows that these words are no longer in use, since the distinction is taken away. — h&yoftevyig, called) This word is construed with the circumcision, apart from the epithet, in the flesh made by hands.8 And the circumcision is used in the concrete for the people circumcised ; in the flesh made by hands, in the abstract.
12. "On, that) On this word, you were [ver. 12], and you are made [ver. 13], depend ; but the particle is repeated from ver. 11. — xupls, without) The antithesis is in Christ, ver. 13. Their
1 Postea demum, i.e. After we have been created anew in Christ, and not till then.—ftD.
2 Thus Beng. does not take irpovrrotftourw actively and governing «, implied in o% (attracted to spyoi;) : but intransitively, " Created unto good works, in which (o/V — w ot'JToHs) God hath so prepared and ordered the matter, that we should walk." — ED.
3 i.e. "heya^ivng does not apply to these last words. — ED.