Romans 9:3

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 cut off from the society and privileges of His visible people, as an excommunicated person, and also be cut off from the earth by an accursed death at last, dying under the hidings of God's face and dreadful fruits of His displeasure for a time, as Christ did; and thus to suffer from Christ for the Jews, as Christ, who was made a curse for us, suffered from God the Father, who was despised and rejected of men, cast out of the synagogue as an accursed person while He lived, and at last died an accursed death for us. As Christ loved us so the Apostle loved his brethren.

Rom. 9:4