Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Romans: Chapter 9].
9:29 {Hath said before} (\proeir•ken\). Perfect active indicative
of \proeipon\ (defective verb). Stands on record in Isa 1:9.
{Had left} (\egkatelipen\). Second aorist active indicative of
old verb \egkataleip•\, to leave behind. Condition of second
class, determined as unfulfilled, with \an egen•th•men\ and \an
h•moi•th•men\ as the conclusions (both first aorist passives of
\ginomai\ and \homoio•\, common verbs). {A seed} (\sperma\). The
remnant of verse 27.
9:30 {Attained} (\katelaben\). Second aorist active indicative of
\katalamban•\, old verb, to grasp, to seize, to overtake
(carrying out the figure in \di•k•\ (to pursue). It was a curious
paradox. {Which is of faith} (\t•n ek piste•s\). As Paul has
repeatedly shown, the only way to get the God-kind of
righteousness.
9:31 {Did not arrive at that law} (\eis nomon ouk ephthasen\).
First aorist active indicative of \phthan•\, old verb to
anticipate (1Th 4:15), now just to arrive as here and 2Co
10:14. The word "that" is not in the Greek. Legal righteousness
Israel failed to reach, because to do that one had to keep
perfectly all the law.
9:32 We must supply the omitted verb \edi•xa\ (pursued) from
verse 31. That explains the rest. {They stumbled at the stone
of stumbling} (\prosekopsan t•i lith•i tou proskommatos\). The
quotation is from Isa 8:14. \Proskopt•\ means to cut (\kopt•\)
against (\pros\) as in Mt 4:6; Joh 11:9f. The Jews found Christ
a \skandalon\ (1Co 1:23).
9:33 Paul repeats the phrase just used in the whole quotation
from Isa 8:14 with the same idea in "a rock of offence"
(\petran skandalou\, "a rock of snare," a rock which the Jews
made a cause of stumbling). The rest of the verse is quoted from
Isa 28:16. However, the Hebrew means "shall not make haste"
rather than "shall not be put to shame." In 1Pe 2:8 we have the
same use of these Scriptures about Christ. Either Peter had read
Romans or both Paul and Peter had a copy of Christian
_Testimonia_ like Cyprian's later.
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