Verse 2
2. He God, in the previous verse, who offers the grace.
Saith In Isaiah 49:8; nearly according to the Septuagint. It is in Isaiah a clearly Messianic passage; but the thee addressed by Jehovah is the Messiah himself. God promises him (by a Hebraism in the past tense) an accepted day for the work of redemption. Paul quotes it to his readers as proof that the day, the now, is the time for them to avail themselves of that redemption.
Heard thee See John 11:41-42, with notes.
Day of salvation The period when, redemption’s work being wrought, it is offered to men.
Behold The apostle’s earnest comment repeated, calling attention to the fact that the offer is but for a period, and that period now. Not, as Meyer, that the period is brief by the supposed immediate advent to judgment; but that during this our Messianic age each man’s share of the acceptable period is short but a day.
Accepted The above word accepted, repeated with a strengthening prefix, well-accepted.
Accepted That is, by God himself as the time of mercy-giving.
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