Note 167 — Chapter XXI

We thus attempt to convey the force of μέν.

[168] So read; not "for Israel."

[169] Cp. 1 Pet. i. 2; εἰς ὑπακοὴν ... Ἰησοῦ Χριτοῦυ; an "obedience" which means the decisive submission of the sinner to the Saviour's method of mercy.

[170] Ὁ ποιήσας: the aorist sums up acts into a single idea of action.

[171] Ἐν αὐτῇ: "in the righteousness"; such seems to be the true reading. To "live in" a righteousness is to live as it were surrounded, guaranteed, by it.

[172] Observe that the context in Deut. xxx. is full of the thought that rebels and law-breakers shall be welcome back when they come penitent to their God, "without one plea," but taking Him at His word.

[173] Or, with an alternative reading, "that Jesus is Lord."

[174] See above, ix. 33.

[175] Throughout these questions we read the verbs in the conjunctive.

[176] We thus represent, with hesitation, the aorist tense.

[177] No doubt the immediate reference of Isai. lii. 7 is to good news for "Zion" rather than from her to the world. But the context is full not only of Messiah but (ver. 15) of "many nations."

[178] The aorist gathers up the history of evangelization into a point of thought.

[179] Read Χρισυοῦ, probably.

[180] So we paraphrase πρῶτος (not πρῶτον) Μωϋσῆς λέγει.

[181] So we attempt to give the force of ἐπ' οὐκ ἔθνει, ἐπὶ ἔθνει.

[182] Ἐμὲ is emphatic in both clauses. Ἐπερωτᾶν is used of the consultation of an oracle. Our translation thus seems better than the more secondary explanation, "who sought not to do My will."