The Pulpit Commentary — Romans — Section 323

in tho Now Toeta.ment roforring to the heart for 1r11.pd.1r-ru,µ.a., Bnt the word 1111 used in (of. espeoio.lly John xii. 40, T.-r6,PM>K<V English, is not equivalent. ir we retain 11bTw11 Toli, 6,POCJAµ.ol,s, 1<0:I ,,..,,tf,pu,1<,v 11.b-riiJv the re~dering " fall," we mnst nndent&nd -r¾/11 1<11.p8lav). And such hnrclening is no a partia) or oomP?l'"ry fall, not prostration new ond stre.ngo thing, or to be taken ae !rom which there 18 no recovery. Balvation implying failure of God's promises to his 1s come ,unto the Gentiles, for to provoke people; for it is but what Scripture tells t~em to Je&_lou,y. (The word -..apa(-1>,..,,,-a,, UB of, with the Hlea. conveyed by it, is from Vere. 8-10.-AccOl'ding as it is written, Dent. xn:ii. 21, which see.) 11row if the God gave them a spirit of slumber (rather, fall (1rpd.1r-ruiµa, a.a above) of them be the atupor. The word is 1<11.-ra116{1S, cited from richea of the world, and the dunmishing Isa.. xxix. 10 in the LXX. Cf. Ps. Ix. 3, of them the riches of the Gentiles, how where the LXX. has 0111011 1<a-ra.11o!•uis. It much more their fnlneaa 1 The words lln7Jµa is from the verb Ka.-ra116rrrrE<11, which means and 1r>.:f,puiµa., rendered in the Anthorized properly "to prick" (see Acts ii. 37, 1<a-re- Version "diminishing" and "fnlne-Si! " ba.ve 11J'Y71rra.11 -rii Ka.p8la). The noun seems to have been variously understood. They 'are in got its sense a.a a.hove from the idea of contrast with each other, and mrut endently a pricking shock, causing stupefaction), be understood with reference to the same eyes that they should not see, and ears idea.. Now, TAf/pu,µa., as used a.fterwarrls in that they should not hear, unto this day. ver. 25 (liXP" oi'i -rb TAf/pu,µa .,.,;,.., ,e,,;,. And David saith, Let their table be made lrr,A/1?1), seems plainly to mean the full a snare, a.nd a. trap, and a. stnmbling-blook, complement of the Gentiles ; a.nd so here and a recompense unto them. Let their eyes must Bllrely be mea.nt the fuJl complement be darkened, that they may not see, and bow of the Jews, pointing to the same idea. a.;i ras down their be.ck alway. The references in 'Irrpa¾,>,. in ver. 26. If so, l\TT71µa must mean ver. 8 are a combination of Dent. xxix. 3 the defect from snch full complement-not. and Isa. xxix. 10, quoted freely from the indeed (SB some have e.xplained), the small LXX. ; that in ver. 9 is to Pa. lxix. 23, 24, number (i.e. of believers) now opposed to e.lso quoted freely. (For similar combination the fnll number in the future, but abstrac- and free quotation of texts, so as to bring tedly, defect, or feumeB3, as oppo3ed to jul- out Old Testament ideas, cf. eh. iii. 10-19; nesa. This interpretation agrees with the ix. 32, 33.) It is not necessary that the mea.ning of l),--niµ.a in the only other place passages here referred to should be regarded where it occlll'S in the New Te,,--tament, viz. o.s directly prophetic of the time of Christ. 1 Cor. vi. 7, where it seems t.o signify It is enough for the purpose of the argument "defect," though used in that pB.'!Sllge with that God's people should be shown to be a moral reference. The reason why tha liable to the state of stupefaction described, present l\-r,-,,µa of the Jews is the riches ot without ceasing to be his people. And so the Gentiles is that the refusal of the Jews the thought, which ha.s been in view all to accept the gospel had been the occasion o.long, is now taken up, of the present of its being offered to the Gentiles (cf. A.da ha.rdening of Israel ss a nation not being xiii. 46; ::u:viii. 28 ; Biso Matt. :s:v. 2-!; intended to be perma.nent. xxii. 9). Ii is not, of conrse, mea.nt that the Vora. 11, 12.-I say then, Have they gospel WBB not originally intended for all stumbled that they should fall t i.e. in 8UOh the world, but only that the present and wise lt8 to fall, rightly given in the Vulgste immediate promulgation of it to the Gentiles a.s sio ut caderoot. There is no need here had been due to tha Jews' refu..<al. Other- to press the telio use of 11111. in 1'1111. werro,rr,, wise, we may conceive, it would hare been so a.s to require the translation, " that they after the fulness of the Jews had come in might fall." It is rather the use of con- that it would hava been exteuded through templated result.• God forbid. :But by their them to the Gentiles (cf. eh. xv. 8, 9). Cf. fall (rather, trip, or false stap ). The word is Isa. Ix., where, as in other prophetic pa.sasge.i, 1ra.pd.1r-rwµa., suitnbly used here in view of the the vision presented is that of tha scattered figure of stumbling. The idoo is tlmt sons of Israel being fin,-t brought into the they ha.d etwnbled over the "etwnbling- glorified holy city, aud the Geutil.i;o ~ther- blook" above spoken of, but not so 11e to iug round them through the eTIJr - open lie hopelessly prostrate. C1uvin tru.nsfotes g11tes. well, "Num iwpegerunt ut oorruerent?" Vera. IS. H.-:But (5~ is better supported ond "eorum lo.psu." Alford adopts " lo.pse" tho.n "YG/1) I speak to you the Gentiles. Ina.s- muoh(or,aofar)then(o~r, whiohis notiu tha 1 Tho various usoe of T1111 1\1'8 well ell:- Te:dus Reoeptus, being rel\d, and so connect- plainod in one or a sol'ics of cu:tiolas 011 the ing this olo.uso wi:th what folloWl!) l\S I am 11.ll tmuijlo.tion ol' tho Hovised Vorsion by Pro- aposUa of the Gentiles. I glorify m:y ministry. feasor Evan ■ of Dmhmu, publiilhod in tho if by any means I may provoke to jsal\lusy .Ei»poaitor (see No. xv iii,, for July, 1882). (in the Authorized Ven;ion, nNulati,m, but is 110.IIANH, ~  THE ErIBTLE OF PAUL 'l'O THE ROMANS. [arr. :x:t. 1-36.