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31. counted . . . righteousness--"a just and rewardable action."
for--or, "unto," to the procuring of righteousness, as in
Ro 4:2; 10:4.
Here it was a particular act, not faith, nor its object Christ; and
what was procured was not justifying righteousness, or what was
to be rewarded with eternal life; for no one act of man's can be taken
for complete obedience. But it was that which God approved and rewarded
with a perpetual priesthood to him and his descendants
(Nu 25:13;
1Ch 6:4,
&c.).
JFB.
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