ἥξουσιν�. There is an obvious reference to Isaiah 49:12; Isaiah 45:6. Nothing more furiously excited the envy of the Jews than the free admission of the Gentiles to those privileges of the Kingdom of Heaven (Ephesians 3:6) which they themselves rejected. Romans 11:1-36; Acts 13:44-52.

ἀνακλιθήσονται. ‘Shall recline at banquet,’ Luke 11:37; Luke 14:8, &c.; Mark 6:39. Godet rightly says that the Epistles to the Romans and Galatians are commentaries on these words.

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