30, 31. What shall we say then?--"What now is the result of the whole?"
The result is this--very different from what one would have expected.
That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have
attained--"attained"
to righteousness, even the righteousness of faith--As we have
seen that "the righteousness of faith" is the righteousness which
justifies (see on
Ro 3:22,
&c.), this verse must mean that "the Gentiles, who while strangers to
Christ were quite indifferent about acceptance with God, having
embraced the Gospel as soon as it was preached to them, experienced the
blessedness of a justified state."
JFB.
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