elect of God, holy and beloved, Colofs. iii. 12; holy brethren, 1 Thess. v. 7; a holy nation, 1 Pet. ii. 9. SEC. XI. Minister of the circumcifion. Rom. xv. 8, 9. Jefus Chrift became a minister Saxovov of the circumcifion, for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers; and that the gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. Read ver. 10, 11, 12. Comp. Matt. xv. 24. In ver. 16, Paul styles himself a minifter λagyon of Jesus Christ to the gentiles, miniftering the Gospel of God. In xii. 6, λaragyog is fynonymous with diaxovos in ver. 4. Galat ii. 7, 8. When they faw that the Gospel of the uncircumcifion was committed to me, (Paul) as the Gospel of the circumcifion was to Peter; (for he who wrought powerfully in Peter to the apostleship amoroλny of the circumcifion, wrought powerfully in me alfo toward the gentiles) &c. SEC. XII. The meffenger of the Covenant. Malachi iii. 1. The Lord whom ye feek fhall fuddenly come to his temple, even the Meffenger of the covenant, in whom ye delight,. Malachi ii. 7. The lips of the priest should keep knowledge, and men fhould feek the law from his mouth; for he is the meffenger of Jehovah God of hofts. Gal. iv. 14. Ye received me as a meffenger of God, as Jefus Chrift. See also Heb. i. 4. SEC. XIII. The Mediator of the New Covenant. Heb. xii. 24. Jefus the Mediator μeon of the new covenant; also ix. 15; viii. 6; mediator μens of a better covenant. 1 Tim. ii. 5. For there is one God, and one Mediator eons between God and men, the man Chrift Jefus. Gal. ii. 19. The law was miniftered by mef fengers through the hand of a mediator μεσιτε. John vii. 19. Jefus fays, did not Mofes give you the law? John i. 17. The law was given by Mofes; but favour and truth were by Jefus Christ. 2 Cor. v. 18, 20. God hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the miniftry of reconciliation. We are therefore ambaffadors for Chrift, as though God befought you by us; we, for Christ, entreat you, be ye reconciled to God. Matt. iii. 17. Lo, a voice from heaven, faying, this is my beloved fon, in whom 1 am well pleased. Alfo xvii. 5; 2 Pet. i. 17; Colofs. i. 13. Father (ver. 12,) who hath 'The tranflated us into the kingdom of his beloved fon. Alfo Ephes. i. 6; comp. John x. 17. ftyled beloved, and beloved children, of God. Pfa. Ix. 5. That thy beloved may be delivered, fave with thy right hand. Jerem. xxxi. 3. I (Jehovah) have loved thee (Ifrael) with an everlasting love. xii. 7. I have given the dearly beloved (Heb. the love) of my foul into the hand of her enemies. Alfo xi. 15; Ifai. xliii. 4. John xiv. 21. He who keepeth my commandments, shall be loved by my Father; and ver. 23. Ephes. v. 1. Be ye imitators of God, as beloved children. I Thefs. i. 4. Brethren beloved of God. Alfo Rom. i. 1, 17. SEC. XV. Proved to be the Son of God, by his refurrection from the dead. Rom. i. 1 to 4. The Gospel of God &c. concerning his Son, who was of the race of David, according to the flesh, and proved to be the Son of God, εν δυναμει κατα πνευμα αγιωσύνης, through miraculous power from the Spirit of holiness, by his refurrection from the dead, even Jefus Chrift our Lord; &c. A comma is here placed after 9e8, in the fourth verse, instead of being put after duvauя, as it is in e Griesbach, &c. because I apprehend the apostle defigned, by this claufe, to specify that the power by which Jefus was raifed, was from God the Father. (See vi. 4.) This he expreffes in his usual pointed and energetic manner, by ufing two abstract fubitantives, which denote the pure fpirituality and unspotted holinefs of the Moft High, vμα aɣiшTUFTS. Comp. John iv. 24; Ifai. xliii. 14, 15; Rev. iv. 8; and fee Eff. vi. on the Hebrew fuperlative, fec. 19 and 20. E per, de caufa efficiente eaque principali. Schleufner 16. See Matt. ix. 34; Mark xii. 36; Acts iv. 9; xvii. 28. Avvapis miraculous power. Acts iii. 12; iv. 33; vi. 8; x. 38; Luke iv. 36; v. 17; vi. 19; viii. 46; ix. 1; Mark vi. 5; ix. 38, 39; Colofs. i. 11, 29, &c. 2 Cor. xii. 12. Κατα πνεύμα. (Κατα rejens accufativm, e, ex. Schleus. 10.) Luke i. 18; viii. 4; x. 31; A&ts iii. 17; 1 Tim. v. 21; Tit. iii. 5 ; Philem. 14. The expreffions κατα σαρκα and κατα πνεύμα have been fuppofed to be contrafted to each other. But the contraft lies chiefly in the argument, namely, between the frailty of the nature of Jefus, and the dignity of his office. For the point here is to fhew, that though Jefus was a man, yet he was clearly manifefted to be the Son of God, (or the Meffiah, or the Chrift, which are fynonymous; John i. 34, 41; Matt. xxvi. 63; Mark xiv. 61, 62; Luke xxii. 67 to 70;) by his refurrection, because this, as the Apostle here 39, 40. declares, was effected by the power of God himself. The prodigious greatnefs of this power he speaks of, Ephes. i. 19, 20. Jefus himself, alfo, refted upon his refurrection a decifive evidence of the truth of his pretenfions. John ii. 18 to 22; Matt. xii. 38, A fimilar contraft between the frailty of Christ's nature during his miniftry on earth, and his glorious state after his refurrection, is drawn in other paffages of Scripture. 1 Pet. iii. 18; being put to death indeed in the flesh, but reftored to life by the Spirit. 2 Cor. xiii. 4; though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth through the miraculous power of God Acts ii. 32. This Jefus hath God raised up, of which all we are witneffes. Ver. 36. Wherefore let all the houfe of Ifrael know affuredly, that God hath made that Jefus, whom ye have crucified, Lord and Christ. Πνευμα αγιωσύνης. This Hebrew idiom, being very intelligible in English, is preferved in the above translation, in order to retain that internal evidence of authenticity in the verfion, which is derived from the style of the Apoftle, by fhewing that he was of Hebrew origin. Jefus declares that the righteous in general will alfo be finally proved to be fons of God, by their refurrection to everlasting life. Luke xx. 35, 36. Those who fhall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, (or life,) and the refurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage, nor indeed can they die any more; for they are like |