[[11]] 1 Thess. i. 10; Rom. viii. 3.
[[12]] Acts xx. 28.
[[13]] Phil. ii. 6-11.
[[14]] Without the article which makes it a proper name of the Father.
[[15]] R. V. margin2. It does further violence to the Greek to translate as R. V. margin1, 'He who is God over all is (be) blessed for ever.' I have nothing to add on the matter to S. and H. in loc., especially p. [236].
[[16]] Tit. ii. 13. This is probably the right rendering.
[[17]] St. Matt. iii. 9.
[[18]] Great stress was laid by the prophets on the absence of any original merit or power in Israel, which caused the divine election; see Ezek. xvi, Deut. xxvi. 5.
[[19]] See especially Amos ix. 7-10: 'Are ye not as the children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the Lord. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir? Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the Lord. For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.'
[[20]] Gen. xii. 3; Isa. lxvi. 18; Zech. viii. 23, &c.