Note 198 — Chapter XXIV
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Such is the normal meaning of μυστήριον in the N. T. It is a thing which in itself may or may not be what we mean by "mysterious." But it is a thing which mere observation and reasoning cannot à priori arrive at; God must disclose it.
[199] Πλήρωμα is the practical realization of an ideal.
[200] So we paraphrase αὕτη αὐτοῖς ἡ παρ' Ἐμοῦ διαθήκη.
[201] The aorist εἰσέλθῃ may rather gather up the great ingathering into one thought than mark a narrow crisis in it.
[202] Ἀμεταμέλητα: literally, "unrepented-of," and so, "admitting no repentance," μεταμελεία, "change of mind." This is fairly represented by "irrevocable."
[203] See above, p. 19.
[204] It is possible to render here: "they did not obey your mercy"; i.e., they refused submission to that Gospel in which you found embodied the mercy of God. But the balance of thoughts and sentences is in favour of the rendering above.
[205] He quotes nearly verbatim from Isai. xl. 13. Cp. Jerem. xxiii. 18.
[206] Τὰ πάντα: the Greek gives us at once the items and the sum of the "all."