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31. νῦν, again under the Gospel, ἠπείθησαν refused to obey GOD’s voice speaking in the Gospel, τῷ ὑ. ἐ. owing to the mercy shown to the Gentiles: the wide range of the Gospel was in S. Paul’s experience the principal cause of offence to the Jews. This construction gives a clear and fitting sense: others take τῷ ὑ. ἐ. with ἐλεηθῶσιν; but this involves a very awkward order and does not give a quite clear sense.
ἵνα καὶ αὐ. νῦν ἐλ. In order that they in their turn under the Gospel may experience the mercies of God, in contrast, that is, with their present subjection to His wrath, not with their former covenant relation, as that also was a state of mercy.