Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 10:19

19. But I say, Did not Israel know ? First, Moses saith , I will provoke you to Jealously by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you .

Here he proves by three Testimonies out of the Old Testament, That the Iews must needs have heard the sound of the Gospel, together with the Gentiles; only they Rejected it, when the other Embraced it. And so he layeth the ground of what he was purposed to handle, in the following Chapter, concerning the receiving of the Gentiles, and the casting off, and after calling of the Iews.

Here something must be supplied to make up the Sence. Either God, or the Gospel, or the Righteousness of Faith, or the conversion of the Gentiles: The Israelites could not well pretend Ignorance, Considering what Moses and Isaiah had said, in whom, or in whose Writings they were Conversant, viz. in Deut. 32.21. Still he follows the Translation of the Seventy.

Here God threatneth the Iews, That He would Punish them with jealousy and anger, by preferring the Gentiles before them; at the sight whereof, their Hearts should be sore vexed; to behold all their Priviledges taken from them, and given to a People, whom they accounted most Vile and Despicable; to be no People in regard of them; to be Dogs and Beasts rather than Man, vid. Act. 13.45. Read the cited place in Deuter. and you will find that God speaks of this, as a fit Punishment upon the Iews [illegible: 1 letter]or their Idolatry: They had chosen to themselves, such as were no gods; and therefore, to requite them, God would take to Him such as were no People: They had chosen to themselves (as it were) another Husband; and God, to be even with them, had Chosen another Wife.

Marginal references: Or, hath not Israel known?