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Romans 9:16
So, then, it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.
So, then, it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.
Verse Romans 9:16. _SO THEN IT IS NOT OF HIM THAT WILLETH_, c.] I conclude, therefore, from these several instances, that the making or continuing any body of men the peculiar people of God, is right...
SO THEN - It follows as a consequence from this statement of God to Moses. Or it is a doctrine established by that statement. NOT OF HIM THAT WILLETH - This does not mean that he that becomes a Christ...
II. DISPENSATIONAL. GOD'S DEALINGS WITH ISRAEL. Chapter s 9-11. 1. Israel and God's Sovereignty. CHAPTER 9 _ 1. Paul's Yearning over Israel. (Romans 9:1 .)_ 2. What Israel Possesseth. (Romans 9:...
GOD'S FREE ELECTION. Romans 9:6. We must distinguish: to be of Israel, is not to be Israel. Mere physical heredity counts for nothing: Isaac was the proper seed of Abraham, designated as the child of...
THE PROBLEM OF THE JEWS (Romans 9:1-6) In Romans 9:1-33; Romans 10:1-21; Romans 11:1-36 Paul tries to deal with one of the m
What shall we then say? Are you going to say that there is injustice with God? God forbid! For, he says to Moses: "I will have mercy on whomsoever I will have mercy and I will have pity on whomsoever...
WILLETH. Greek. _thelo_. App-102. Isaac willed, Esau ran....
_of him that willeth_ Not that human willing and running are _illusions;_but they are not the _cause_of mercy. They follow it; they may even be the channel of its present action; but they are not the...
14–33. This choice of GOD is not unjust, because it flows from His Mercy, not from man’s disposition or efforts. (17) Pharaoh himself was raised up to give an instance of GOD’S power and to make wide...
E. Romans 9:1 to Romans 11:36. THE REJECTION OF THE GOSPEL BY ISRAEL The theme of Romans 1:16-17 has been worked out; it has been shown that the Gospel is a power of GOD unto salvation for them that b...
ΆΡΑ ΟΎΝ (G686; G3767) итак; делает вывод из предыдущего, ΘΈΛΟΝΤΟΣ _praes. act. part. gen. masc. sing. от_ ΘΈΛΩ (G2309) желать. Subst. part. praes. описывает текущую деятельность. _Gen._ может быть об...
DISCOURSE: 1885 GOD’S SOVEREIGN MERCY THE SOURCE OF ALL OUR BLESSINGS Romans 9:16. _So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy_. THE Apostle, being...
GOD THAT SHEWETH MERCY— _Shewing mercy,_ and _obtaining mercy,_ are applied to the donation of extraordinary favours and privileges upon a people, chap. Romans 11:30. 1 Peter 2:10.; and that it is to...
_TEXT_ Romans 9:14-18. What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. Romans 9:15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on w...
So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. SO THEN IT IS NOT OF HIM THAT WILLETH (or hath the inward intention), NOR OF HIM THAT RUNNETH (maket...
__ God's Sovereignty-Individual 37 God's love never lets us go. The trials and tribulations we endure are not tokens of His displeasure. They are all tempered by His loving heart. A sense of His lov...
THE REJECTION OF ISRAEL NO DISPARAGEMENT OR DISPROOF OF THE GOSPEL The Apostle sorrows over the exclusion of Israel (Romans 9:1), but their exclusion does not involve any breach of God's promises, for...
RUNNETH] i.e. as a racer strives....
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 9 GOD’S *BLESSINGS FOR THE *JEWS 9:1-5 V1 I speak the truth in *Christ. I am not lying. The *Holy Spirit guides my con...
OF HIM THAT RUNNETH. — A metaphor taken from the foot-races as St. Paul may very possibly have seen them practised at Corinth. (Comp. Romans 9:16; Galatians 2:2; Galatians 5:7;...
(14-18) These verses contain the second part of the vindication. This power of choosing one and refusing another has always been reserved to Himself by God; as is seen by the examples of Moses and Pha...
CHAPTER 20 THE SORROWFUL PROBLEM: JEWISH UNBELIEF; DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY Romans 9:1 WE may well think that again there was silence awhile in that Corinthian chamber, when Tertius had duly inscribed the...
In the second part of his theodicy Paul meets the objection that this sovereign freedom of God is essentially unjust....
Conclusion from this word of God. It (namely, the experience of God's mercy) does not depend on man's resolve or effort (for τρέχειν _cf._ 1 Corinthians 9:24 ff.), but on God's merciful act. This, of...
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD'S CHOICES Romans 9:14 God desires to do His best for every man. But, as in the case of Esau, who wantonly sold his birthright, and of Pharaoh, who turned all God's revelation...
The connection between this very remarkable passage and the preceding climax is close. The great certainty of "no separation" is the experience of one in close communion with the Lord experimentally....
(12) So then [it is] not of him that (q) willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. (12) The conclusion of the answer: therefore God is not unjust in choosing and saving from hi...
_I will have mercy, &c. Then it is not of him that willeth, &c. By these words he again teaches that God's call and predestination of those whom he has decreed to save, in not upon account of any work...
TWENTY-FIRST PASSAGE (9:1-29). THE LIBERTY OF GOD IN REGARD TO THE ELECTION OF ISRAEL. The apostle opens this passage with a preface expressing the profound grief he feels in view of the mysterious fa...
“ _What shall we say then? Is there not unrighteousness with God? Let it not be! For He saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion. So...
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. (15) 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 compassio...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
_PREDESTINATION AND FREE WILL_ ‘So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.’ Romans 9:16 Viewing things on the side of God’s absolute sovereignty,...
16._It is not then of him who wills, etc. _From the testimony adduced he draws this inference, that beyond all controversy our election is not to be ascribed to our diligence, nor to our striving, nor...
There remained one important question to be considered, namely, how this salvation, common to Jew and Gentile, both alienated from God this doctrine that there was no difference was to be reconciled w...
SO THEN IT IS NOT OF HIM THAT WILLETH,.... This is not a consequence drawn by an adversary, showing that if this be the case, it signifies nothing for men to will or do, they may even sit still and do...
So then _it is_ not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. Ver. 16. _So then it is not, &c._] _Nec volentis, nec volantis_ (as a nobleman gave it for his motto),...
_What shall we say then?_ To this. The apostle now introduces and refutes an objection. _Is there unrighteousness_, or injustice, _with God?_ In the distribution of his providential blessings, in this...
OF GOD THAT SHOWETH MERCY; the blessings which God bestows upon sinners originate wholly with himself. They are bestowed upon such persons, at such times, and in such ways and measures as he sees best...
WHAT OF GOD'S PROMISES TO ISRAEL? Now, such being the case - that God had purposed in eternal counsel the blessing of Gentiles on an equal basis with Jews, as it is this day - what is to become of the...
God loved Jacob. God "hated" Esau. NOTE: 1. Nothing to de with their eternal salvation. 2. Not hate in sense of "despise, bad feelings" 3. Vine, p. 538, "Relative preference for one thing over an...
SO THEN IT IS NOT OF HIM THAT WILLETH, NOR OF HIM THAT RUNNETH, BUT OF GOD THAT HATH MERCY. -'it is not. question of human will or effort' (Mof), 'not on human wishes or human efforts' (TCNT). Again,...
14-24 Whatever God does, must be just. Wherein the holy, happy people of God differ from others, God's grace alone makes them differ. In this preventing, effectual, distinguishing grace, he acts as a...
q.d. God's election is not of Jacob s, or of any other man s, willing or running; i.e. it is not from his good desires or deeds, his good inclinations or actions, or from the foresight thereof; but it...
So then [With these words Paul introduces the answer to the question in Romans 9:14; as inferred or deduced from the citation in Romans 9:15; as though he said, "As a conclusion from what I have cited...
Origen de Principiis Book III The words, moreover, used by the Apostle Paul, that "it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy; "[67] Origen de Principiis B...
Romans 9:16 So G686 then G3767 not G3756 wills G2309 (G5723) nor G3761 runs G5143 (G5723) but...
‘So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.' ‘It' clearly refers to the previous verse, speaking of God's showing of mercy, whilst the present tense of the verb...
THE SCRIPTURE DEMONSTRATES THAT GOD IS SOVEREIGN OVER ALL THINGS AND HAS MERCY ON WHOM HE WILLS (9:14-18). Paul recognises that what he has just demonstrated about God's elective mercy might raise the...
NOT ALL ISRAEL ARE THE TRUE ISRAEL. THE TRUE ISRAEL ARE A REMNANT OF ISRAEL CHOSEN BY GOD, TOGETHER WITH SOME BELIEVING GENTILES. FOR GOD HAS A RIGHT TO DO WHAT HE WILL (9:6-29). Paul now begins to es...
THE MESSSIAH HAS COME AND IS FOR ALL. GOD HAS NOT FAILED IN HIS PROMISES TO THE TRUE ISRAEL. SALVATION FOR ALL IS THROUGH FAITH IN THE MESSIAH (9:1-11:36) Paul now expands on Chapter s 1-8, in which h...
Romans 9:16. SO THEN. With this favorite expression, Paul introduces an inference from the passage cited: ‘In consequence of all this, it is proven that.' The word to Moses is accepted as a divine axi...
II. _God's Promise is not Void._ The rejection of the gospel by the Jews, which has caused the deep emotion of the Apostle in view of their great privileges (Romans 9:1-5), does not render God's promi...
SO THEN (αρα ουν). In view of this quotation.IT IS NOT OF (ου). We must supply εστιν ελεος with ου. "Mercy is not of." The articular participles (του θελοντοσ, του τρεχοντοσ, του ελεωντος) can be...
The Jews thought that God must certainly save them. They thought they had a birth claim. Were they not the children of Abraham? Surely they had some right to it. This chapter battles the question of r...
Paul begins by expressing his great sorrow because the Jews had rejected Christ. Romans 9:1. _I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, That I hav...
CONTENTS: Covenants of Israel not set aside by Gospel. The seven-fold privilege of Israel. The blinding of Israel and God's mercy to the Gentiles. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Abraham, Sarah...
Romans 9:1. _I say the truth in Christ, I lie not._ These forms of speech are equivalent to a solemn oath, and emanate from a heart deeply imbued with the sentiments of the Saviour, who often wept ove...
SO THEN. This repeats the reasoning of Romans 9:11-13. Esau was Isaac's favorite son and the one firstborn, Esau acted to receive his _birthright._ Yet God was influenced by none of this, and blessed...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 9:14 God is just in choosing one over the other because _no one_ deserves to be saved (see Romans 3:23). The salvation of anyone at all is due to God’s...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 9:1 God’s Righteousness to Israel and to the Gentiles. Paul has made it clear that God’s saving promises have been fulfilled for the Gentiles. He now asks whether the promises Go...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 9:13. AS IT IS WRITTEN, JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED—There is no necessity to soften the “hated” into “loved less”; the words in Malachi proceed on the fullest meaning of ἐ...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 11:1 2. _The present position and prospects of the Jewish nation con-sidereal._ ROMANS 9:1 (1) _Deep regret expressed for the present exclusion of the Jewish nation from inheritan...
Paul has just closed the eighth chapter of Romans in which he has taken us into the very peaks of the spiritual experiences that are ours in Christ Jesus. Showing us that we have this glorious place i...
1 Corinthians 1:26; 1 Peter 2:10; 1 Peter 2:9; 2 Thessalonians 2:13;...
It is not of him that willeth nor of him that runneth. It, the participation in God's mercy. Of him, i e., dependent upon. Runneth, denoting strenuous effort. The metaphor from the foot - race is a fa...
HATH GOD CAST AWAY HIS PEOPLE? Romans 9:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. We have the depths of the heart of Paul toward the Jews. How the heart of the Apostle must have throbbed as he wrote, "I say the truth...
It — The blessing. Therefore is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth — It is not the effect either of the will or the works of man, but of the grace and power of God. The will of man is he...
As if the apostle had said, "The foregoing instances abundantly show, THAT IT IS NOT OF HIM THAT WILLETH; for Abraham willed that Ishmael might live to be partaker of the blessing promised to his seed...