εἰς τοὺς πατέρας ἡμῶν with אABCE. Vulg. ‘ad patres nostros.’

6. καὶ νῦν … ἕστηκα κρινόηενος, and now I stand here to be judged, i.e. I am on my trial.

ἐπ' ἐλπίδι τῆς εἰς τοὺς πατέρας ἡμῶν ἐπαγγελίας κ.τ.λ., for the hope of the promise made by God unto our fathers, i.e. because I entertain the hope that the promise which God made to the patriarchs and to David shall be fulfilled to us. The ‘promise’ must be of the Messiah, and of His coming into the world as King. For this is what the ten tribes were looking for. But this in St Paul’s view embraced the doctrine of the Resurrection, because that was God’s assurance to the world (Acts 17:31) that He who was so raised up was to be the judge of quick and dead.

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