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Did Israel not know?
As in Rom 10:18, a negative answer is implied. “It is surely not true that Israel did not know.” Did not know what? That the Gospel should go forth into all the earth. Moses and Isaiah had prophesied the conversion of the Gentiles, and Isaiah the opposition of the Jews thereto.
First Moses
First in order; the first who wrote.
I will provoke you to jealousy (ἐγὼ παραζηλώσω ὑμᾶς)
From Deu 32:21. See Rom 11:11, Rom 11:14; 1Co 10:22. Used only by Paul. The Septuagint has them instead of you.
By them that are no people (ἐπ' οὐκ ἔθνει)
Lit., upon a no-people. The relation expressed by the preposition is that of the no-people as forming the basis of the jealousy. The prediction is that Israel shall be conquered by an apparently inferior people. No-people as related to God's heritage, not that the Gentiles were inferior or insignificant in themselves. For people render nation, as Rev. See on 1Pe 2:9.
By a foolish nation (ἐπὶ ἔθνει ἀσυνέτῳ)
Lit., upon a foolish nation as the basis of the exasperation. For foolish, see on Rom 1:21.
I will anger (παροργιὦ)
Or provoke to anger. The force of the compounded preposition παρά in this verb and in παραζηλώσω provoke to jealousy, seems to be driving to the side of something which by contact or comparison excites jealousy or anger.