Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast of God,
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
But if thou art called a Jew. In the common Greek copies, we read, behold, thou art a Jew St. Paul here turns his discourse particularly to the Jews, who valued themselves so much upon their law, their temple, and their ceremonies; and therefore are said to rest on the law, as if it were enough to be by profession a Jew. (Witham)
But many manuscripts, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, St. Ambrose, Sedul., Theophylactus read it as in the Vulgate, ei su Ioudaios. (Calmet)
