Ver. 13. For every one who invokes. the name of the Lord shall be saved. The words are from Joel iii. 5 (= ii. 32 LXX). ‘The Lord” in the original is Jehovah; here, manifestly, Christ—a proof how completely Christ stands in God’s place in all that concerns salva- tion.
Ver. 14 f. Itis difficult to trace very clearly the line of the Apostle’s thought here. Many scholars (including W. and H. and Lipsius) connect vers. 14 and 15 closely with what precedes, and mark a break between ver. 15 and ver. 16. It is as if Paul were expanding the was of ver. 13 and justifying that universal preaching of the Gospel which was itself a stumbling-block to the Jews. Every one who invokes the name of the Lord shall be saved, and therefore the condi- tions of such invocation must be put within reach of every one. It is no argument against this interpretation that the ideas it introduces are not essential to the main purpose of the chapter, which is to prove the culpability of the Jews: the eager fulness of Paul’s mind often carries him on thus. Others read vers. 14-21 continuously, and mark a break at vers. 13 (6.5., Weiss, Sanday and Head- lam). They lay stress on the οὖν in ver. 14 (cf. ix. 14, ix. 30, xi. 1, 11) as indicating that a paragraph has ended, and that the writer is facing the consequences which flow from it, the objections which can be made to it, etc. In this case the connection would be something like this. Salvation depends upon invoking Christ ; but to invoke Christ depends upon certain conditions which the ¥ews may say it has been beyond their power to fulfil ; let us inquire into the conditions, and see whether such a plea holds good. The first of these connections seems to me much the simpler, and it has the ad- vantage of covering the second. For if the invocation of Christ, which is the sole and universal condition of salvation. has been made possible for al/ men, 1.
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