Verse 16
16. The tabernacle of David The two verses are quoted nearly accurately from the Septuagint of Amos 9:11-12. The Jews applied it to the times of the Messiah. By David’s booth or tabernacle is meant the royal dominion of David; to which, as James, the brother of Jesus, well knew, Jesus was the lineal heir by human birth. And, as Jesus was dead, James himself was lineally king of Jerusalem!
It is a remarkable proof of the popular use of the Greek translation of the Old Testament, the Septuagint, that Judaic James should thus quote it even where it seems to vary from the ordinary Hebrew text. Yet the substance of the Hebrew prediction is conveyed in the words quoted.
The residue Other than Jews; a depreciatory term for Gentiles.
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