αὐτοῦ after Χριστὸν with אABCDE. Vulg. ‘Christum suum.’

18. τὸν Χριστὸν αὐτοῦ. Render, by the mouth of all the prophets that His Christ should suffer. The purpose of the whole of the Scripture is to set forth the redemption of men through the suffering of Christ. So that from the first mention of the bruising of the heel of the seed of the woman (Genesis 3:15), there had been a constant chain of testimony that the Christ should suffer. The ignorance of the Jews was manifested in this, that they would only see what spake of the sovereignty of the Messiah, and so rejected Him who came to give His life as a ransom for men.

οὕτως. Emphatic. By turning your evil deed to a purpose of salvation. So Chrysostom, ὅρα πόση τοῦ θεοῦ ἡ σοφία, ὅτ' ἂγ ταῖς ἑτέρων πονηρίαις εἰς τὸ δέον ᾖ κατακεχρημένη.

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