Rom. 9:3. "For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh." In the original it is "that myself were 'anathema' from Christ." The Apostle's meaning probably is, that he was willing that Christ should so order it that he should in the world be... [ Continue Reading ]
Rom. 9:4. "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." The same glory is doubtless here meant, whose departure was lamented when the ark was taken, when it was said by the true friends of... [ Continue Reading ]
Rom. 9:22, 23. "What if God, willing to shew His wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction; and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had afore prepared unto glory." He does not say to... [ Continue Reading ]