Romans 9:1-5
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE TRUE AND THE FALSE ISRAEL. 9:1-13 The rejection of the Jews a matter of sorrow:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE TRUE AND THE FALSE ISRAEL. 9:1-13 The rejection of the Jews a matter of sorrow:... [ Continue Reading ]
I SAY THE TRUTH IN CHRIST, I LIE NOT, MY CONSCIENCE ALSO BEARING ME WITNESS IN THE HOLY GHOST,... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT I HAVE GREAT HEAVINESS AND CONTINUAL SORROW IN MY HEART.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I COULD WISH THAT MYSELF WERE ACCURSED FROM CHRIST FOR MY BRETHREN, MY KINSMEN ACCORDING TO THE FLESH,... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO ARE ISRAELITES, TO WHOM PERTAINETH THE ADOPTION, AND THE GLORY, AND THE COVENANTS, AND THE GIVING OF THE LAW, AND THE SERVICE OF GOD, AND THE PROMISES;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHOSE ARE THE FATHERS, AND OF WHOM, AS CONCERNING THE FLESH, CHRIST CAME, WHO IS OVER ALL, GOD BLESSED FOREVER. AMEN. The apostle has closed the first part of his letter the positive exposition of his Gospel. He now opens up an entirely new section, devoting himself to some practical problems which... [ Continue Reading ]
NOT AS THOUGH THE WORD OF GOD HATH TAKEN NONE EFFECT. FOR THEY ARE NOT ALL ISRAEL WHICH ARE OF ISRAEL,... [ Continue Reading ]
The promises of God concern the spiritual descendants of Abraham:... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER, BECAUSE THEY ARE THE SEED OF ABRAHAM, ARE THEY ALL CHILDREN; BUT, IN ISAAC SHALL THY SEED BE CALLED.... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT IS. THEY WHICH ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE FLESH, THESE ARE NOT THE CHILDREN OF GOD; BUT THE CHILDREN OF THE PROMISE ARE COUNTED FOR THE SEED.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THIS IS THE WORD OF PROMISE, AT THIS TIME WILL I COME, AND SARAH SHALL HAVE A SON. From what the apostle had said in the first verses of the chapter the Jews might argue that he was setting aside the very promises of God which he had just mentioned as a privilege of the Israelites. He therefore... [ Continue Reading ]
AND NOT ONLY THIS; BUT WHEN REBECCA ALSO HAD CONCEIVED BY ONE, EVEN BY OUR FATHER ISAAC,... [ Continue Reading ]
An additional example of rejection:... [ Continue Reading ]
(FOR THE CHILDREN BEING NOT YET BORN, NEITHER HAVING DONE ANY GOOD OR EVIL, THAT THE PURPOSE OF GOD ACCORDING TO ELECTION MIGHT STAND, NOT OF WORKS, BUT OF HIM THAT CALLETH,)... [ Continue Reading ]
IT WAS SAID UNTO HER, THE ELDER SHALL SERVE THE YOUNGER.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS IT IS WRITTEN, JACOB HAVE I LOVED, BUT ESAU HAVE I HATED. To give additional corroboration to his statements! Paul introduces another example from the history of the patriarchs: But not only this. The instance just cited is not the only one; Rebecca also furnishes evidence for the point in questi... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT SHALL WE SAY, THEN? IS THERE UNRIGHTEOUSNESS WITH GOD? GOD FORBID!... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY AND ITS RESULT. A serious objection answered:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HE SAITH TO MOSES, I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I WILL HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I WILL HAVE COMPASSION.... [ Continue Reading ]
SO, THEN, IT IS NOT OF HIM THAT WILLETH, NOR OF HIM THAT RUNNETH, BUT OF GOD THAT SHOWETH MERCY.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE SCRIPTURE SAITH UNTO PHARAOH, EVEN FOR THIS SAME PURPOSE HAVE I RAISED THEE UP, THAT I MIGHT SHOW MY POWER IN THEE, AND THAT MY NAME MIGHT BE DECLARED THROUGHOUT ALL THE EARTH.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE HATH HE MERCY ON WHOM HE WILL HAVE MERCY, AND WHOM HE WILL HE HARDENETH. What inference shall we draw from the argument as presented in the first part of the chapter? The apostle makes ready to meet an objection which he anticipates, not only on the part of the Jews, but on the part of eve... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU WILT SAY THEN UNTO ME, WHY DOTH HE YET FIND FAULT? FOR WHO HATH RESISTED HIS WILL?... [ Continue Reading ]
Silencing the reasonable objector:... [ Continue Reading ]
NAY BUT, O MAN, WHO ART THOU THAT REPLIES AGAINST GOD? SHALL THE THING FORMED SAY TO HIM THAT FORMED IT, WHY HAST THOU MADE ME THUS?... [ Continue Reading ]
HATH NOT THE POTTER POWER OVER THE CLAY, OF THE SAME LUMP TO MAKE ONE VESSEL UNTO HONOR AND ANOTHER UNTO DISHONOR? Paul here introduces the objection, not of a humble seeker after truth, but of a truly modern faultfinder, who prides himself upon his intellect and logic. Hearing that God withdraws Hi... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT IF GOD, WILLING TO SHOW HIS WRATH, AND TO MAKE HIS POWER KNOWN, ENDURED WITH MUCH LONG-SUFFERING THE VESSELS OF WRATH FITTED TO DESTRUCTION,... [ Continue Reading ]
God's power exerted in the interest of men:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THAT HE MIGHT MAKE KNOWN THE RICHES OF HIS GLORY ON THE VESSELS OF MERCY, WHICH HE HAD AFORE PREPARED UNTO GLORY,... [ Continue Reading ]
EVEN US, WHOM HE HATH CALLED, NOT OF THE JEWS ONLY, BUT ALSO OF THE GENTILES?... [ Continue Reading ]
AS HE SAITH ALSO IN HOSEA, I WILL CALL THEM MY PEOPLE WHICH WERE NOT MY PEOPLE, AND HER BELOVED WHICH WAS NOT BELOVED.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS THAT IN THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS SAID UNTO THEM, YE ARE NOT MY PEOPLE, THERE SHALL THEY BE CALLED THE CHILDREN OF THE LIVING GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
ISAIAH ALSO CRIETH CONCERNING ISRAEL, THOUGH THE NUMBER OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL BE AS THE SAND OF THE SEA, A REMNANT SHALL BE SAVED;... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HE WILL FINISH THE WORK, AND CUT IT SHORT IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, BECAUSE A SHORT WORK WILL THE LORD MAKE UPON THE EARTH.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS ESAIAS SAID BEFORE, EXCEPT THE LORD OF SABAOTH HAD LEFT US A SEED, WE HAD BEEN AS SODOM, AND BEEN MADE LIKE UNTO GOMORRAH. If the question is one merely of right on the part of God, then the answer can be only that which St. Paul gave, vv. 19-21. But a different question entirely is that, whe... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? THAT THE GENTILES, WHICH FOLLOWED NOT AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS, HAVE ATTAINED TO RIGHTEOUSNESS, EVEN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS OF FAITH.... [ Continue Reading ]
The conclusion:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT ISRAEL, WHICH FOLLOWED AFTER THE LAW OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, HATH NOT ATTAINED TO THE LAW OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE? BECAUSE THEY SOUGHT IT NOT BY FAITH, BUT AS IT WERE BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW. FOR THEY STUMBLED AT THE STUMBLING-STONE;... [ Continue Reading ]
AS IT IS WRITTEN, BEHOLD, I LAY IN SION A STUMBLING-STONE AND ROCK OF OFFENSE; AND WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH ON HIM SHALL NOT BE ASHAMED. The apostle had shown that God was building His Church by calling His own from among the Gentiles and from a small remnant of Israel, the great majority of the Jewish p... [ Continue Reading ]