Verse 24
24. God is blasphemed So that the people who were selected as God’s peculiar people to spread the honour of his name had reversed their mission and spread its dishonour.
As it is written Unwelcome charges the apostle in self-defence clothes in Scripture language, language which, though not intended for the present case, is capable of such application.
His mind seems to have blended the thought of Ezekiel 36:22, with the phraseology of Isaiah 52:5.
In approaching his offensive conclusion Paul takes great care not to disparage the divine ritual, nor lower the divine mission of Israel. But he avails himself of the very superiority of the ritual and the mission to show the failure of the race.
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