vs 30-31
One good reason for not saying this is because it involves intimating that Israel ever really did strive after righteousness! Although it is worth saying that after Second Temple, it appears they didn't have a problem with idolatry.
To say that the gentiles never really strove after righteousness is probably fair.
vs 32
But that comes out of right field! The idea that Israel, who strove for righteousness, have not found it because they made it about works and not about faith is true, says Paul! And he would know, having been trained as a Pharisee.
And so it was that through making Israel an object of wrath in the contemporary time, gentiles might see that it is faith that is important and not the striving towards good works.
vs 33
Who stumbled over that rock more than the Jews? No one, it seems. Perhaps Athenians?
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