又如以赛亚先前说过,若不是万军之主给我们存留馀种,我们早已像所多玛,蛾摩拉的样子了。And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
[BR]这样,我们可说什么呢。那本来不追求义的外邦人,反得了义,就是因信而得的义。
[BR]What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
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这是什么缘故呢。是因为他们不凭着信心求,只凭着行为求。他们正跌在那绊脚石上。Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
就如经上所记,我在锡安放一块绊脚的石头,跌人的磐石。信靠他的人必不至于羞愧。As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
[BR]因为不知道神的义,想要立自己的义,就不服神的义了。
[BR]For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.