Romans 9:31 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. But Israel, which followed after - But the Jews, who have hitherto been the people of God, though they have been industrious in observing a rule by which they supposed they could secure the blessings of God's peculiar kingdom, yet have not come up to the true and only rule by which those blessings can be secured.