11. his own--"His own" (property or possession), for the word is in
the neuter gender. It means His own land, city, temple, Messianic
rights and possessions.
and his own--"His own (people)"; for now the word is masculine. It means the Jews, as the "peculiar people." Both
they and their
land, with all that this included, were "HIS OWN,"
not so much as
part of "the world which was made by Him," but as "THE HEIR" of the
inheritance
(Lu 20:14;
see also on
Mt 22:1).
received him not--nationally, as God's chosen witnesses.
JFB.
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