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(εν Χριστω). Paul really takes a triple oath here so strongly is he stirred. He makes a positive affirmation in Christ, a negative one (not lying), the appeal to his conscience as co-witness (συνμαρτυρουσης, genitive absolute as in Romans 2:15 which see) "in the Holy Spirit."
CHAPTER IX. _Paul expresses his great sorrow for the unbelief and obstinacy_ _of the Jews_, 1-3. _Whose high privileges he enumerates_, 4, 5. _Points out the manner in which God has chosen to comm...
I SAY THE TRUTH - In what I am about to affirm respecting my attachment to the nation and people. IN CHRIST - Most interpreters regard this as a form of an oath, as equivalent to calling Christ to wit...
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:...
SORROW OVER THE REPROBATION OF THE JEWS. Paul's rapture passes into anguish at the exclusion of his kinsmen from this blessedness. So the second theme of the epistle comes into view; see Introd. § 5....
I tell you the truth as one who is united to Christ is bound to do. I do not lie. My conscience bears witness with me in the Holy Spirit when I say that my grief is great and there is unceasing anguis...
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
IN. Greek. _en_. App-104. CHRIST. App-98. BEARING... WITNESS. See Romans 2:15. THE HOLY GHOST. App-101....
Romans 9:1-6. The problem of Jewish unbelief: Paul's distress in view of it 1. _I say the truth in Christ_, &c. The discussion of the case of Israel occupies tins chapter and the next two. On the gen...
ἈΛΉΘΕΙΑΝ, Κ.Τ.Λ. Cf. 1 Timothy 2:7; 2 Corinthians 11:31; 2 Corinthians 7:14; 2 Corinthians 12:6;...
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...
О строении Рим. 9 — 11, основанных на цитатах из ВЗ, _см._ James W.Aageson, "Scripture and Structure in the Development of the Argument of Romans 9-11" CBQ 48 (1986): 265-89. ΣΥΜΜΑΡΤΥΡΟΎΣΗΣ _praes. a...
DISCOURSE: 1883 OUR DUTY TOWARDS THE JEWS Romans 9:1. I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in...
DISCOURSE: 1882 THE PRIVILEGES OF JEWS AND CHRISTIANS Romans 9:1. I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I hare great heaviness and continu...
I SAY THE TRUTH IN CHRIST, &C.— The Apostle has proved by three special arguments, that the grace or favour of God in the Gospel extends to the Gentiles, as well as the Jews: this he has done in the f...
_TEXT_ Romans 9:1-13. I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit, Romans 9:2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart. Romans 9:3 For...
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, Introduction to this Topic (Romans 9:1) Too well aware that he was regarded as a traitor to the deare...
__ 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...
IN CHRIST] see on Romans 6:11; Colossians 3:9. IN THE HOLY GHOST] i.e. under His influence....
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...
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...
(1-5) My heart bleeds for Israel, my country, that highly-privileged people. I could fain have changed places with them, and been myself cut off from Christ, if only they might have been saved....
I SAY THE TRUTH IN CHRIST. — The meaning of this expression seems to be, “From the bottom of my soul, in the most sacred part of my being, as a Christian man united to Christ, I make this solemn assev...
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...
The intense pain with which Paul contemplates the unbelief of his countrymen....
ἀλήθειαν λέγω ἐν Χριστῷ, οὐ ψεύδομαι. The solemn asseveration is meant to clear him of the suspicion that in preaching to the Gentiles he is animated by hostility or even indifference to the Jews. Yet...
LONGING FOR HIS KINSMEN Romans 9:1 Our consciences should be continually bathed in the light and warmth of the Holy Spirit, Romans 9:1, that the inward witness may be maintained in its integrity. We...
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....
I say (1) the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, (1) The third part of this epistle, which goes to the twelfth chapter, in which Paul ascends to the h...
Paul expresses all the intensity of his grief on account of his people (Romans 9:1-3), and he justifies it by the magnificent prerogatives wherewith this unique people had been honored (Romans 9:4-5)....
“ _I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have a great grief and a continual lamentation in my heart._ ” No connecting particle joins this par...
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...
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, (2) That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. (3) For I could wish that myself were a...
CONTENTS The Apostle having now fully established the Doctrine of Justification by Christ, and shewn the blessed Effects of it in the Heart and Conscience; here enters upon the Doctrine of God's orig...
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...
In this chapter he begins to remove the offences which might have diverted the minds of men from Christ: for the Jews, for whom he was appointed according to the covenant of the law, not only rejected...
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...
I SAY THE TRUTH IN CHRIST, I LIE NOT,.... The apostle being about to discourse concerning predestination, which he had mentioned in the preceding chapter, and to open the springs and causes of it, and...
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, Ver. 1. _I say the truth, &c._] As any one is more assured of his own salvation, the more he desireth th...
The apostle having insinuated, Romans 3:3, that God would cast off the Jews for their unbelief, a Jew is there supposed to object, that their rejection would destroy the faithfulness of God. To this t...
IN CHRIST; as one united to Christ, and devoted to his service. IN THE HOLY GHOST; under his direction and influence....
I SAY THE TRUTH IN CHRIST, I LIE NOT, MY CONSCIENCE ALSO BEARING ME WITNESS IN THE HOLY GHOST,...
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE TRUE AND THE FALSE ISRAEL. 9:1-13 The rejection of the Jews a matter of sorrow:...
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...
Paul has sorrow for fellow Jews. Heavy heart. 3 Willing to be lost for others. Would you? 4 Special blessings of the Jews: 1. Adopted as God's special people. 2. Were given a special law. 3. Unde...
__ Romans 9:1. say the truth in Christ,. lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit, 'I say the truth in Christ' -'I am telling the truth' (NASV). 'Paul really takes. triple oa...
1-5 Being about to discuss the rejection of the Jews and the calling of the Gentiles, and to show that the whole agrees with the sovereign electing love of God, the apostle expresses strongly his aff...
ROMANS CHAPTER 9 ROMANS 9:1 Paul professeth an unfeigned sorrow for the Jewish nation, ROMANS 9:6 but proveth by instance from Scripture that the promise to Abraham did not necessarily include all his...
[In Part I. of his Epistle (chaps. 1-8) Paul presented the great doctrine that righteousness and salvation are obtained through faith in Jesus Christ. But the unbelief of the Jews excluded them Genera...
Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus A Sectional Confession of Faith And again: "I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost."[49] Archelaus Acts of the Disp...
Romans 9:1 tell G3004 (G5719) truth G225 in G1722 Christ G5547 not G3756 lying G5574 (G5736) my...
‘I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit, that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart, for I could wish that I myself were anathema f...
PAUL IS CONCERNED FOR ISRAEL BECAUSE IN SPITE OF THEIR MANY ADVANTAGES A LARGE PROPORTION OF THEM HAVE REJECTED THE MESSIAH WHO HAS COME FROM AMONG THEM (9:1-5). We find in Paul's introductory comment...
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...
1. _Deep Sorrow of the Apostle for the Unbelief of the Jews, his Brethren_, _and God's Covenant People, from whom the Messiah came_. The pathos of the partially apologetic opening of this division of...
Romans 9:1. I SAY THE TRUTH IN CHRIST. The asseveration of the Apostle is threefold: and is introduced abruptly, without a conjunction, in accordance with the feeling which prompts it ‘In Christ' is n...
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...
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...
Romans 9:1. _I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself w...
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 I SAY IS TRUE. Paul implied in Romans 3:3 that God would reject the Jewish Nation because they disbelieved Christ. Some Jews then said: "If this is true, then God has broken his own promise and r...
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 9:1. I SPEAK IN CHRIST THE TRUTH.—Not to be rendered, “I speak the truth in Christ.” The apostle, not as a man merely, but as a member of Christ, in His name, as His apostle....
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 John 3:19; 1 Thessalonians 2:5; 1 Timothy 1:5; 1 Timothy 2:7;...
In Christ. Not by Christ, as the formula of an oath, Christ being never used by the apostles in such a formula, but God. Romans 1:9; 2 Corinthians 1:23; 2 Corinthians 11:31;...
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...
In Christ — This seems to imply an appeal to him. In the Holy Ghost — Through his grace....
Observe here, 1. The apostle's solemn asseveration or oath; he calls Christ and the Holy Ghost to witness for the truth of what he says, which is the very formality of an oath. Learn thence, That it...