Lord, they have killed, &c. 1 Kings 19:10. The quotation is not precisely with either LXX. or Heb.; but substantially exact. The Gr. past verbs here are aorists.

This, and not the evangelical equality of Jew and Gentile, is here in view; with the special object of reminding the Gentile Christian how singular and eminent had been the work of the Jewish Church; how welcome individual Jews must be to return to the Church, which, though now universal in extent, was, and of course is always, Jewish in descent;and how natural it was that a special work in that Church should yet be designed for an aggregate of Jewish believers.

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