not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can’t understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 6. Unknown. Hebrew “heavy.” Calmet.—Prot. “hard.” Bible.—It is not above thy strength. Deuteronomy 30:12.—To thee. He insinuates that the Gentiles would obey the apostles. Saint Jerome—But the time was not yet come. Calmet.—From this text and Matthew 11:21 it appears that “the same grace” is accepted by some and rejected by others, as “more grace is added to the former, which was sufficient before, and by this … is made effectual” through God’s mercy. Romans 9. Worthington.—Those who reject the first grace, can blame only themselves, if they receive no more. The same grace falling on a heat better prepared by God, like seed on good soil, is more fruitful.