ἢ παραζηλοῦμεν τὸν κύριον; i.e. as the Jews had done to their cost. See note on last verse. Cf. also Numbers 14; Deuteronomy 32:21; Psalms 95:8; Hebrews 3:16. The same word is found, with the same translation, in Romans 10:19; Romans 11:11, and in 1 Corinthians 10:14 of that chapter it is translated provoke to emulation.

μὴ ἰσχυρότεροι αὐτοῦ ἐσμέν; Surely we are not stronger than He? After having thus hinted at a wrath to come, St Paul turns abruptly aside, after his manner, to introduce a new argument.

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