[183] I borrow the phrase from the late Prof. H. Rogers' Supernatural Origin of the Bible inferred from Itself, a book of masterly thinking and reasoning.
[184] We attempt to express the aorist thus, with hesitation.
[185] See above, p. 237.
[186] This last sentence, "But if of works, etc.," is only doubtfully supported by documents. But it bears, to our mind, strong internal marks of genuineness. It is at once too difficult, and too deeply related to the context, to look like the insertion of a scribe.
[187] The aorists sum up the manifold history.
[188] Such a combination of citations is a significant witness to the Apostle's view of the O. T. as, from its divine side, one Book everywhere.
CHAPTER XXIII
ISRAEL'S FALL OVERRULED, FOR THE WORLD'S BLESSING,
AND FOR ISRAEL'S MERCY
Romans xi. 11-24