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30. Ἐμοὶ ἐκδίκησις. The Scripture warrant adduced in support of this stern language is Deu 32:35, and a similar phrase (“O God, to whom vengeance belongeth”) is used in Psa 94:1-2. It is remarkable that the citation does not agree either with the Hebrew or the LXX., but is quoted in the same form as in Rom 12:19, where however the application is quite different, for it is there used as an argument against avenging our own wrongs. The writer of this Epistle, as a friend of St Paul and one who was of his school, may have been familiar with this form of the quotation, or may have read it in the Epistle to the Romans, with which he seems to have been familiar (comp. Heb 13:1-6 with Rom 12:1-21); and indeed there are traces that the quotation in this form was known in the Jewish schools. Perhaps it had become proverbial.
The words “saith the Lord” are omitted in א, D, and most ancient versions, and may have been added from Rom 12:19.
καὶ πάλιν. Deu 32:36.
Κρινεῖ κύριος. In the original passage the “judgement” consists in saving His people from their enemies, as also in Psa 135:14.