For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

For I bear them record (or, 'witness') - as well he could from his own sad experience,

That they have a zeal of ('for') God, but not according to knowledge (cf. ; Acts 26:9; Galatians 1:13). He alludes to this well-meaning of his people, notwithstanding their spiritual blindness, not certainly to excuse their rejection of Christ and rage against His saints, but as some ground of hope regarding them (see ).

Self-righteousness was the fatal rock on which Israel was split-Christ the divinely-provided, divinely-predicted, only, and all-sufficient righteousness of the sinner, whether Jew or Gentile, that believeth (Romans 10:3)

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