Commentary Critical and Explanatory
Romans 11:34
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? (see ; )
Or who hath been his counselor? (see Isaiah 40:13).
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? (see ; )
Or who hath been his counselor? (see Isaiah 40:13).
Verse 34. _FOR WHO HATH KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD?_] Who can pretend to penetrate the counsels of God, or fathom the reasons of his conduct? His designs and his counsels are like himself, _infinite_...
FOR WHO HATH KNOWN? ... - This verse is a quotation, with a slight change, from Isaiah 40:13, “Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him?” It is designed to exp...
ISRAEL'S RESTORATION. CHAPTER 11 (“The Jewish Question”, by A. C. G., gives a complete exposition of this great chapter.) _ 1. God Hath not Cast Away His People. (Romans 11:1 .)_ 2. Israel's Apost...
THE MYSTERY OF ISRAEL'S FUTURE. Romans 11:25_ a_. It may save Gentile believers from a dangerous self-conceit (_cf. Romans 12:16_) to learn the secret that the hardening (see Romans 11:7) which has pa...
THE CALLUS ON THE HEART (Romans 11:1-12)...
O the depth of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How his decisions are beyond the mind of man to trace! How mysterious are his ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or, who h...
HATH KNOWN. knew. App-132. HATH BEEN. became. COUNSELLOR. fellow-counsellor. Greek. _sumboulos._ Only here....
_For who hath known counseller_ Nearly verbatim from Isaiah 40:13. See too Jeremiah 23:18. The Gr. verbs are aorists; and the time-reference is perhaps to creation, or to the eternal decrees "before t...
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...
In dealing with this awful problem the last and deepest thought is, how infinite is the wealth and wisdom and knowledge in GOD, how far we are from being able to explore all His judgments or to track...
34. Isaiah 40:13 f., qu. 1 Corinthians 2:16; cf. Wis 9:13; Wis 9:17....
ΈΓΝΩ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097) знать, ΣΎΜΒΟΥΛΟΣ (G4825) советник, помощник. ΈΓΈΝΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) становиться....
DISCOURSE: 1903 GOD ALL IN ALL Romans 11:34. _Who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? For of...
_TEXT_ Romans 11:33-36. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out! Romans 11:34 For who hath known the mi...
__ Conciliation-National 22 Nothing shows the blindness of Christendom more than their severe denunciation of faithless Israel, yet they are following precisely the same course and have not the slig...
From Isaiah 40:13....
ISRAEL'S REJECTION NOT FINAL. A WARNING TO THE GENTILES In this chapter St. Paul brings to an end his great exposition of God's dealings with the Jews. He has shown in Romans 9 that God is free to cho...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 11 GOD’S PLAN FOR *ISRAEL’S FUTURE 11:1-32 THE RESULTS OF THE *JEWS’ FAILURE TO OBEY GOD 11:1-12 V1 So, I tell you th...
FOR WHO HATH KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD? — The two clauses in this verse are illustrative of the wisdom and knowledge of God, just as the next verse is illustrative of His “riches.”...
(33-36) This grand and comprehensive view of the divine purposes makes so deep an impression upon the Apostle that he breaks out into an impassioned ascription of praise, with which the first (doctrin...
CHAPTER 24 THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL DIRECTLY FORETOLD: ALL IS OF AND FOR GOD Romans 11:25 THUS far St. Paul has rather reasoned than predicted. He has shown his Gentile friends the naturalness, so...
Proof from Scripture of the unsearchableness of God's ways: He has had no confidant. Isaiah 40:13; 1 Corinthians 2:16. It is mere pedantry to refer half the verse to σοφία and the other half to γνῶσις...
THAT GOD “MIGHT HAVE MERCY UPON ALL” Romans 11:25 “Mysteries” are the reasons and principles of the divine procedure which are hidden from ordinary minds, but revealed to the children of God by the S...
This discussion now gives rise to a new question, "Did God cast off His people?" They were created a nation in order that through them all the nations should be blessed. Failing to realize the divine...
(18) For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? (18) He bridles the wicked boldness of man in three ways: firstly, because God is above all most wise, and therefore it i...
O the depth, &c. After he hath spoken of the mysteries of God's grace and predestination, of his mercy and justice, which we must not pretend to dive into, he concludes this part of his epistle, by an...
“ _For who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been His counsellor? Or who hath first given to Him, and it shall be recompensed unto Him again?_ ” Here is the Scripture proof that God's desig...
I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. (12) Now if the fall of them be th...
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...
34._Who has known the mind of the Lord? _He begins here to extend as it were his hand to restrain the audacity of men, lest they should clamor against God’s judgments, and this he does by stating two...
Hereupon the question is immediately raised, has God then rejected His people? To this Chapter 11 is the answer. The apostle gives three proofs that it is by no means the case. Firstly, he is himself...
FOR WHO HATH KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD,.... The intentions of his mind, the thoughts of his heart, and the counsels of his will: these could never have been known, if he had not revealed them; nor ca...
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? Ver. 34. _Who hath been his counsellor_] Alphonso the wise (the fool rather) was heard blasphemously to say, that if he had b...
_O the depth_ The unsearchable, inconceivable abundance; _of the riches_, &c. In the ninth chapter, Paul had sailed but in a narrow sea, now he is in the immense ocean: _of the wisdom and knowledge of...
WHO; can understand the mind of God? or, who ever taught him any thing? No one. He is alone the sum and source of all. Isaiah 40:13; Jeremiah 23:18. He needeth not and receiveth not information from a...
A concluding doxology:...
FOR WHO HATH KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD? OR WHO HATH BEEN HIS COUNSELOR?...
ISRAEL YET TO BE RESTORED We have seen in Romans 9:1 that there is an election according to the grace of God in Israel: in Romans 10:1 this is shown to be on the basis of faith in contrast to law: now...
God riches of wisdom, knowledge and judgment are great, unsearchable, beyond our ability to know or understand. 34 What human being can understand the mind of God? Who has served as God's advisor and...
__ Romans 11:34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? "For" -here is why God's ways (His methods in accomplishing His plans), are many times impossible to track. '...
33-36 The apostle Paul knew the mysteries of the kingdom of God as well as ever any man; yet he confesses himself at a loss; and despairing to find the bottom, he humbly sits down at the brink, and a...
i.e. Who knoweth what God is about to do? Or who hath given his advice about the doing of it? This is taken out of ISAIAH 40:13,14....
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? [Isaiah 40:13; Jeremiah 23:18. "Judgments" and "mind" have reference to God's wisdom; "ways" and "counsellor" look toward his...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V For no other being had the power of revealing to us the things of the Father, except His own proper Word. For what other person "knew the mind of the Lord," or who el...
Romans 11:34 For G1063 who G5101 known G1097 (G5627) mind G3563 LORD G2962 Or G2228 who G5101 become...
PAUL MARVELS AT THE AMAZING WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE OF GOD AS HE CONSIDERS GOD'S WAY OF WORKING AS REVEALED IN WHAT HE HIMSELF HAS SAID (11:33-36). Paul now marvels at the wisdom and knowledge that God h...
GOD'S PURPOSE WITH REGARD BOTH TO THE JEWS AND THE GENTILES (11:1-36). Paul now carries forward the doctrine of the Israel within Israel, and evidences it again from Scripture, making clear that those...
‘For who has known the mind of the Lord? or who has been his counsellor? or who has first given to him, and it will be recompensed to him again?' For who can possibly fathom the mind of the Lord? And...
2. _The Rejection of Israel is not Final._ In this section is presented the prospective solution of the great historical problem, discussed in this part of the Epistle. Here Paul becomes a prophet; r...
Romans 11:34. FOR WHO, etc. The Apostle here uses, almost exactly the language of Isaiah 40:13; but, by adding ‘for,' he makes it the confirmation of what precedes. The first question may be referred...
WHO HATH KNOWN? (τις εγνω?). Second aorist active indicative of γινωσκω, a timeless aorist, did know, does know, will know. Quotation from Isaiah 40:13. Quoted already in 1 Corinthians 2:16.COUNSEL...
CONTENTS: A spiritual Israel finding salvation. National Israel blinded. Warning to Gentiles. Israel yet to be saved nationally. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Elijah, David, Abraham. CONCLUSION: The...
Romans 11:1. _Hath God cast away his people?_ The jews would say, what else can we infer? If the gentiles are now become the Israel of God, and if we are rejected for not embracing what Paul calls the...
HOW GREAT ARE GOD'S RICHES! In response to Romans 11:32, Paul gives a doxology of praise to God! The whole world, with its racism, violence, lust, and unbelief, may seem to be "disorganized confusion!...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 11:34 Paul quotes Isaiah 40:13 and Job 41:11 to highlight that all good things are gifts from Go
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 11:33.—JUDGMENTS are God’s decrees; AND HIS WAYS are His ways of bringing them to pass. How just is Paul’s reflection upon the whole of his preceding remarks! God’s works in p...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 11:1 (4) _The_ _Jews are not finally rejected, but, through the calling of the Gentiles, will be brought into the Church at last. _St. Paul, painfully recognizing the fact of the pr...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to Romans, chapter 11. In Chapter s 9-11 Paul is dealing with a couple of subjects; one the sovereignty of God, but it is the sovereignty of God in setting aside the nation...
1 Corinthians 2:16; Isaiah 40:13; Jeremiah 23:18; Job 15:8; Job 36:22
Who hath known, etc. From Isaiah 40:13. Heb., Who hath measured the Spirit? Though measured may be rendered tried, proved, regulated. Compare the same citation in 1 Corinthians 2:16. This is the only...
Who hath known the mind of the Lord — Before or any farther than he has revealed it. Isaiah 40:13....
As if the apostle had said, "No creature ever did, or ever can, pierce into the mind of God, nor ever was called to be of his council. No creature ever did or can advise him, nor can any creature chal...