And when he had said these words
Cited the prophecy of Isaiah, and declared the mission of the
Gospel to the Gentiles, and their calling by it; both which must
greatly gravel and disturb the unbelieving part of his audience:
the Jews departed;
much displeased and uneasy:
and had great reasoning among themselves;
not only with them that believed, but with others, that seemed to
incline towards the apostle, and who espoused and undertook to
defend some principles of his, against the rest, as the doctrine
of the resurrection; and particularly they might take into
consideration the passage in Isaiah, the apostle had recited to
them at parting, and which was so appropriate to them; as well as
the account he gave them of the preaching of the Gospel, and the
success of it among the Gentiles, things which must be very
grating to them: this whole verse is wanting in the Alexandrian
copy, and in the Syriac version.
