26, 27. And so all Israel shall be saved--To understand this great
statement, as some still do, merely of such a gradual inbringing of
individual Jews, that there shall at length remain none in unbelief,
is to do manifest violence both to it and to the whole context. It can
only mean the ultimate ingathering of Israel as a nation, in
contrast with the present "remnant." (So THOLUCK,
MEYER,
DE
WETTE,
PHILIPPI,
ALFORD,
HODGE). Three confirmations of this now follow: two
from the prophets, and a third from the Abrahamic covenant itself.
First,
as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and
shall--or, according to what seems the true reading, without the
"and"--"He shall"
turn away ungodliness from Jacob--The apostle, having drawn his
illustrations of man's sinfulness chiefly from
Ps 14:1-7
and Isa 59:1-21,
now seems to combine the language of the same two places regarding
Israel's salvation from it [BENGEL]. In the
one place the Psalmist longs to see the "salvation of Israel coming
out of Zion"
(Ps 14:7);
in the other, the prophet announces that "the Redeemer (or,
'Deliverer') shall come to (or 'for') Zion"
(Isa 59:20).
But as all the glorious manifestations of Israel's God were regarded as
issuing out of Zion, as the seat of His manifested glory
(Ps 20:2; 110:2;
Isa 31:9),
the turn which the apostle gives to the words merely adds to them that
familiar idea. And whereas the prophet announces that He "shall come
to (or, 'for') them that turn from transgression in
Jacob," while the apostle makes Him say that He shall come "to turn
away ungodliness from Jacob," this is taken from the
Septuagint version, and seems to indicate a different reading of
the original text. The sense, however, is substantially the same in
both. Second,
JFB.
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