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Rom 10:2. [115]Ζῆλου Θεοῦ, a zeal of God) Act 22:3, note. Zeal of God, if it is not against Christ, is good.-οὐ κατʼ ἐπίγνωσιν, not according to knowledge) An example of Litotes [expressing in less strong terms a strong truth] i.e. with great blindness; it agrees with the word, ignorant, in the next verse. Flacius says: The Jews had and now have a zeal without knowledge; we on the contrary, alas! to our shame, have knowledge without zeal. Zeal and ignorance are referred to at Rom 10:19.
[115] Γὰρ, for.) Therefore even in those, who are not in a state of grace, something at least may be found which may induce those, who rejoice in the Divine favour, to intercede for them.-V. g.