Romans 2:17

17. Behold This is a spirited and direct address, as is the first appeal to the moralized Gentile in Romans 2:1. But the best authorities decide that the true reading is, “But if than art called a Jew.” The consequent corresponding to this if is nowhere affirmatively stated, but is conveyed in the necessary reply of the questions following.

Restest in Reposest or reliest upon.

Boast of God The very word Jew had assumed a religious signification, implying a believer in the one Supreme God, a monotheist in noble distinction from the polytheists. To his own view it was a divine appellation.