"_Christus, nach dem Fleisch, welcher ist Gott über alles, hochgelobet in Ewigkeit._ Deshalb nämlich weil er Gott und Mensch in Einer Person ist. Er ist der andere David (דוד אחר), und ist Jahve unsere Gerechtigkeit (יהוה צדקנו Jer. xxiii. 6). Auch der Midrasch _Mischle_ zu Spr. xix. 21 zählt ה׳ צדקנו neben דוד unter den Messiasnamen auf, und auch anderwärts bezeugen Talmud und Midrasch, dass der Messias יהוה heisst; denn 'Gott war in Christo und versöhnte die Welt mit ihm selber.' Paulus sagt im Grunde nichts anderes als was Jesaia ix. 5, wo die Zunz'sche Bibelübersetzung, der exegetischen Wahrheit die Ehre gebend, übersetzt: 'Man nennt seinen Namen: Wunder, Berather, starker Gott, ewiger Vater, Fürst des Friedens.' Der Messias ist und heisst אל גבור und אבי־עד, also obwohl nicht האלהים, doch אלהים (אל) לעולמים." Delitzsch renders the close of ix. 5 thus: וַאֲשֶׁר מֵהֶם יָצָא הַמָּשִׁיחַ לְפִי בְשָׂרוֹ אֲשֶׁר הוּא אֵל עַל־הַכֹּל מְבֹרָךְ לְעוֹל מִים אָמֵו [152] For this rendering, rather than the alternative, "_Blessed for ever be the God who is over all_," see the reasons offered below, p. 261. [153] Mal. i. 2, 3.--It is plain that "_hatred_" in such a connexion (and cp. Matt. vi. 24, Luke xiv. 26) need mean no more than relative repudiation. No personal animosity is in question, but a decisive rejection of a rival claim. See Grimm's _N. T. Lexicon_ (Thayer), _s.v._ μισεῖν. [154] Observe the vital personality of the phrase; "_the Scripture speaks_." Cp. Gal. iii. 8 for perhaps the strongest example of the kind. [155] Cp. Psal. lxxxi. 12, and above, i. 24, 26. [156] In the Hebrew, literally, "_I will pity the not-pitied one_" (feminine, of the idealized people or church; so in the Greek here, ἠγαπημένην). Divine "_pity_" is more than "akin to" divine "_love_." [157] i. 10 (Hebrew, ii. 1). [158] Ὑπέρ: with the thought of a _lament over_ the ruined ones. The preposition appears here in its original and literal meaning. [159] Isa. x. 22, 23: perhaps with an insertion of the phrase, "_the number of_," from Hos. i. 10. As to wording, he quotes freely from the Hebrew, more nearly from the Lxx. But the substance is identical as compared with both. Following considerable documentary evidence, we omit here the Greek words represented by "_in righteousness; because a short work_." [160] The equivalent of the Lxx. for the "very small _remnant_" (שׂריד) of the Hebrew. [161] For the seventh and last time he uses this characteristic phrase. [162] Δέ: in slightly suggested contrast to the ideal of the Jew, a _merited_ acceptance. [163] Omit here the word δικαιοσύνης. [164] Omit τοῦ νόμου. [165] Omit γάρ. [166] Omit πᾶς. CHAPTER XXI _JEWISH UNBELIEF AND GENTILE FAITH: PROPHECY_ ROMANS x. 1-21