And that he might make known— Mr. Locke thinks the sense of the place requires, that the and should be left out, as it is in some manuscripts: but the and seems essential to the text, and to the Apostle's meaning; as it connects the second reason, why God delayed the destruction of the Jewish nation, with the first reason given, Romans 9:22 thus;—God endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath, first, to shew his wrath, and to make his power known; and also, 2nd, that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy. It is added, which he had before prepared unto glory. See Colossians 1 and particularly Romans 9:27. The Jews were fitted for destruction long before; but the fittest time to destroythem was, after he had prepared many of the faithful among the Gentiles unto glory. For the rod of the Messiah's strength was to be sent out of Sion, Psalms 110:2. The Jewish nation was to supply the first preachers of the Gospel; and from Jerusalem their sound was to go forth into all the earth. Therefore the Jewish state, under all its corruptions, was to be preserved till the Messiah came, and, even till the Gospel, propagated by the Apostles, had taken deep root in the Gentile world. Another thing which rendered the time when the Jewish polity was overthrown the most proper, was this; because then the immediate occasion of it was the extensiveness of the divine grace. The extensive-ness of God's grace occasioned that infidelity of the Jews, which filled up the measure of their iniquity; Romans 9:33 ch. Romans 11:11-12; Romans 11:15; Romans 11:28; Romans 11:30. Thus they were diminished by that abundance which has enriched us; and so the grace of God was illustrated; or so God made known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy. See Locke.
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Romans 9:23
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,