in his righteousness ... he shah live - in it, not for it, as if that atoned for his former sins; but “in his righteousness” he shall live, as the evidence of his being already in favor with God through the merit of Messiah, who was to come. The Gospel clears up for us many such passages (1Pe 1:12), which were dimly understood at the time, while men, however, had light enough for salvation.