Romans 3:29-30 | |
29. Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: | 29. Num Iudæorum Deus tantum? an non et Gentium? certe et Gentium. |
30. Seeing it is one God 1 which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. | 30. Quandoquidem unus Deus, qui justificabit circumcisionem ex fide, et Præputium per fidem. |
29.
"I shall he to you a God, and you shall be to me a people." (Jeremiah 30:22.)
For the circumstance, that God, for a time, chose for himself a peculiar people, did not make void the origin of mankind, who were all formed after the image of God, and were to be brought up in the world in the hope of a blessed eternity.
30.
But it may be, that some will prefer this distinction, -- that the Jews were justified by faith, because they were born the heirs of grace, as the right of adoption was transmitted to them from the Fathers, -- and that the Gentiles were justified through faith, because the covenant to them was adventitious.
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2 The future is used for the present -- "who justifies," after the manner of the Hebrew language, though some consider that the day of judgment is referred to; but he seems to speak of a present act, or as Grotius says, of a continued act, which the Hebrews expressed by the future tense. -- Ed.
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