Godet's Commentary on Selected Books
Romans 9:30
In Romans 9:30-33 the apostle gives summarily the solution of the problem; then he develops it in Romans 10.
In Romans 9:30-33 the apostle gives summarily the solution of the problem; then he develops it in Romans 10.
Verse Romans 9:30. _WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN?_] What is the final conclusion to be drawn from all these prophecies, facts, and reasonings? This: That _the Gentiles which followed not after_ _righteousn...
WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? - What conclusion shall we draw from the previous train of remarks? To what results have we come by the passages adduced from the Old Testament? This question is asked preparat...
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:...
ROMANS 9:30 TO ROMANS 10:4. Paul has discussed the Jewish situation as from God's side; he proceeds to point out, from man's side, THE CAUSE OF ISRAEL'S STUMBLING. This chs. 3- 5 have prepared us to u...
What shall we then say? The Gentiles who were not looking for a right relationship with God received such a relationship, but it was a relationship which was the result of faith, while Israel which wa...
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
HAVE ATTAINED TO. obtained. Greek. _katalambano._ See John 12:35. FAITH. App-150. That is, on faith-principle, as in Romans 1:17....
_What shall we say then?_ Same word as Romans 9:14; where see note. _followed not after_ To them no Revelation had pointed out "righteousness" as a _goal_of efforts. _righteousness_ i.e., practicall...
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...
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...
ΤΊ ΟΥ̓͂Ν ἘΡΟΥ͂ΜΕΝ; Cf. Romans 8:31. ὍΤΙ Κ.Τ.Λ. introduces the answer to the question: but the answer is incomplete till the second subsidiary question 32 διὰ τί is answered. ΔΙΏΚΟΝΤΑ … ΚΑΤΈΛΑΒΕΝ, pur...
What conclusion is to be drawn? The facts are plain: Gentiles have attained a state of righteousness, though they were not seeking it: Jews, who sought it, have not attained. And the reason too is pla...
ΈΡΟΎΜΕΝ (G3004), _см._ Romans 9:14. ΔΙΏΚΟΝΤΑ _praes. act. part. от_ ΔΙΏΚΩ (G1377) охотиться, гнать, преследовать, ΚΑΤΈΛΑΒΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΚΑΤΑΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G2638) захватывать, овладевать....
DISCOURSE: 1887 CHRIST REJECTED BY THE JEWS, AND BELIEVED ON BY THE GENTILES Romans 9:30. What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousn...
THE GENTILES, WHICH FOLLOWED NOT, &C.— _Righteousness_ or _justification,_ is to be understood here, as ch. Romans 4:3; Romans 4:5.Genesis 15:6. It is the justification by faith, to which the Apostle...
_TEXT_ Romans 9:30-33. What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith: Romans 9:31 but Israel, fol...
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? (see the note a...
__ God's Sovereignty-National 25 A comparison of Hos_2:23 with Hos_1:9-11 shows that this is not an _ interpretation _ but an _ illustration_. God, in His sovereign mercy, will reverse the sentence...
9:30 righteousness, (e-16) As ch. 5.21, _ dikaiosune_ , and so to ch. 10.10....
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...
FOLLOWED.. ATTAINED] as a runner in a race: cp. Philippians 3:12....
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...
(30-33) The Apostle has finished with his vindication of the rejection of Israel, and finished also with the course of argument which seemed to bear a strong character of determinism. He now takes up...
WHICH FOLLOWED NOT AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS. — Not having a special revelation, and being inattentive to the law of conscience. ATTAINED TO RIGHTEOUSNESS. — By accepting the offer of Christianity, and esp...
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...
to Romans 10:21. We come now to the second main division of that part of the epistle in which Paul discusses the problem raised by the relation of the Jews to the Gospel. He has shown in chap. Romans...
STUMBLING OVER THE CORNERSTONE Romans 9:25 There has been a notable transference of privilege from the Jew to the Gentile believer. This is not due to fickleness on God's part, but to a fatal defect...
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....
(27) What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed (e) not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. (27) The declaration and manifest...
What then shall we say? Or what shall we conclude from these testimonies of the Scripture, but this paradox, as St. John Chrysostom calls it, that they who sought for justice, or sanctification, found...
Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? (20) Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, W...
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...
_FAITH AND RIGHTEOUSNESS_ ‘The righteousness which is of faith.’ Romans 9:30 There are two aspects of this ‘righteousness which is of faith’ needful for us to keep clearly in view. One is the aspec...
30._What then, etc. _That he might cut off from the Jews every occasion of murmuring against God, he now begins to show those causes, which may be comprehended by human minds, why the Jewish nation ha...
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...
WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN?.... To God's calling of a large number of the Gentiles, and only a very few of the Jews, according to his eternal purposes and decrees; what can be objected to it? is he charge...
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. Ver. 30. _Which is of faith_] Faith wraps...
_What shall we say then_ What is to be concluded from all that has been said, but this, _that the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness_ Who a while ago had no knowledge of, no care or though...
WHAT SHALL WE SAY; what is the conclusion? FOLLOWED NOT AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS; did not know God and did not seek his favor. HAVE ATTAINED; acceptance with God, by believing in the Messiah who has been...
WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? THAT THE GENTILES, WHICH FOLLOWED NOT AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS, HAVE ATTAINED TO RIGHTEOUSNESS, EVEN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS OF FAITH....
The conclusion:...
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...
Gentiles - 1. Did not always follow God's laws 2. Have been offered righteousness 3. Obtained righteousness through faith 31 Israel - 1. Followed God's laws 2. Has not obtained righteousness 32...
WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? THAT THE GENTILES, WHO FOLLOWED NOT AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS, ATTAINED TO RIGHTEOUSNESS, EVEN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS OF FAITH: 'followed not after' -people who hadn't made righ...
30-33 The Gentiles knew not their guilt and misery, therefore were not careful to procure a remedy. Yet they attained to righteousness by faith. Not by becoming proselytes to the Jewish religion, and...
This is the conclusion of the apostle's discourse about the election of some and the rejection of others; as also about the calling of the Gentiles and the casting off the Jews. WHICH FOLLOWED NOT AFT...
What shall we say then? ["Shall we raise objection, as at verse 14, or shall we at last rest in a correct conclusion? Let us, from the Scriptures and facts adduced, reach a sound conclusion." Paul's c...
Romans 9:30 What G5101 say G2046 (G5692) then G3767 That G3754 Gentiles G1484 who G3588 not G3361 pursue...
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...
‘What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith, but Israel, following after a law of righteousnes...
ISRAEL HAS STUMBLED AND HURT ITSELF BECAUSE IT HAS NOT BELIEVED IN ITS MESSIAH AND SUBMITTED TO THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD OBTAINABLE THROUGH FAITH IN HIM (9:30-33). Paul emphasises that the believing G...
Romans 9:30. WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? Precisely as in Romans 9:14, where, however, it introduces an objection. But when followed by an assertion, it further unfolds an argument from what precedes. Here...
1. _The Jews excluded through their Unbelief._ The Gentiles were saved, the Jews failed of salvation (Romans 9:30-31), but the latter fact was due to their seeking righteousness, not by faith, but as...
ATTAINED (κατελαβεν). Second aorist active indicative of καταλαμβανω, old verb, to grasp, to seize, to overtake (carrying out the figure in διωκω (to pursue). It was a curious paradox.WHICH IS OF F...
RIGHTEOUSNESS (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 10:10). _...
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...
WHAT SHALL WE SAY, THEN? Up to this point in chapter 9, Paul has looked at the problem of Jewish unbelief, and shown us that no one has any _claim_ on God to PUT him under obligation. Now in these las...
_As He saith also in Osee, I will call them My people, which were not My people._ THE CALLING OF THE GENTILES I. Their former condition. 1. Not My people. 2. Not beloved. II. Their gracious call-...
_The Gentiles which followed not after righteousness have attained to righteousness … but Israel which followed after the law of righteousness hath not attained._ THE GOSPEL FOR THE GENTILES I. They...
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 9:31.—νόμ. δικ., and not δικ. νομοῦ, because Israel and not the Gentiles had in the economy of mercy a law which taught what was right; law not making righteous, but declaring...
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 6:9; 1 Peter 4:3; 1 Timothy 6:11; Ephesians 2:12;...
Attained [κ α τ ε λ α β ε ν]. See on perceived, Acts 4:13, and taketh, Mark 9:18; John 1:5. Compare attained (efqasen, ver. 31). Rev., arrive at. See on Matthew 12:28. The mea
What shall we say then — What is to be concluded from all that has been said but this, That the gentiles, who followed not after righteousness — Who a while ago had no knowledge of, no care or thought...
As if the apostle had said, "Lord, what shall we say to this great mystery of grace, the calling of the Gentile world, and the cutting off and casting away most of the present Jewish nation? That the...