5. meetest--that is, Thou makest peace, or enterest into covenant
with him (see on
Isa 47:3).
rejoiceth and worketh--that is, who with joyful willingness worketh
[GESENIUS]
(Ac 10:35;
Joh 7:17).
those--Thou meetest "those," in apposition to "him" who represents a
class whose characteristics "those that," &c., more fully describes.
remember thee in thy ways--
(Isa 26:8).
sinned--literally, "tripped," carrying on the figure in "ways."
in those is continuance--a plea to deprecate the continuance of
God's wrath; it is not in Thy wrath that there is continuance
(Isa 54:7, 8;
Ps 30:5; 103:9),
but in Thy ways ("those"), namely, of covenant mercy to Thy
people
(Mic 7:18-20;
Mal 3:6);
on the strength of the everlasting continuance of His covenant they
infer by faith, "we shall be saved." God "remembered" for them His
covenant
(Ps 106:45),
though they often "remembered not" Him
(Ps 78:42).
CASTELLIO
translates, "we have sinned for long in them ('thy ways'), and could we
then be saved?" But they hardly would use such a plea when their very
object was to be saved.
JFB.
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