OT-PROPHET-MINOR.filter - rwp pursue:
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Romans:9:30 @{Attained} (\katelaben\). Second aorist active indicative of \katalamban\, old verb, to grasp, to seize, to overtake (carrying out the figure in \dik\ (to pursue). It was a curious paradox. {Which is of faith} (\tn ek pistes\). As Paul has repeatedly shown, the only way to get the God-kind of righteousness.
rwp@Romans:9:32 @We must supply the omitted verb \edixa\ (pursued) from verse 31|. That explains the rest. {They stumbled at the stone of stumbling} (\prosekopsan ti lithi tou proskommatos\). The quotation is from strkjv@Isaiah:8:14|. \Proskopt\ means to cut (\kopt\) against (\pros\) as in strkjv@Matthew:4:6; strkjv@John:11:9f|. The Jews found Christ a \skandalon\ (1Corinthians:1:23|).