Commentary Critical and Explanatory
Romans 9:9
For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
For this is the word of promise ...
For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
For this is the word of promise ...
Verse Romans 9:9. _FOR THIS IS THE WORD OF PROMISE_, c.] That is, this is evidently implied in the promise recorded Genesis 18:10: _At this time I will come_, saith God, and exert my Divine power, an...
FOR THIS IS THE WORD OF PROMISE - This is the promise made to Abraham. The design of the apostle, in introducing this, is doubtless to show to whom the promise appertained; and by specifying this, he...
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:...
GOD'S FREE ELECTION. Romans 9:6. We must distinguish: to be of Israel, is not to be Israel. Mere physical heredity counts for nothing: Isaac was the proper seed of Abraham, designated as the child of...
But it is not as though the word of God had been completely frustrated. For not all who belong to the race of Israel are really Israel; nor are all really children because they can claim physical desc...
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
SON. Greek. _huios._ App-108. See Genesis 18:14....
_of promise_ Lit. OF THE PROMISE; the promise just referred to in the illustrative case. The "children of God" among Abraham's bodily descendants were to be limited within the descendants by _Sarah;_i...
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...
ἘΠΑΓΓΕΛΊΑΣ Κ.Τ.Λ. This utterance, which was directly connected with the blessing (Genesis 28:10), is a matter of promise....
6–13. The present condition of Israel has not been explicitly stated in Romans 9:1-5, but implied in S. Paul’s wish that he might have been ἀνάθεμα� for them. They are ἀνάθεμα� in spite of all their p...
ΈΛΕΎΣΟΜΑΙ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) приходить, ΈΣΤΑΙ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΕΊΜΊ (G1510) быть....
_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...
__ 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...
9:9 promise, (g-6) See Genesis 18:10 . Sarah. (h-21) The apostle's object is, not to state what the word of promise is, but that the word he quotes, on which all depended, is a matter of promise....
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...
THE WORD] RV 'a word.' AT THIS TIME] i.e. at this season next year (Genesis 18:10)....
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...
THIS IS THE WORD OF PROMISE. — Rather, _this saying is of promise._ The children of promise, I say, for the saying, “At this time will I come,” &c., is a matter of promise; it implied a divine and mir...
(6-13) Now follows a vindication of the dealings of God in rejecting Israel. And this is divided into three parts. Part 1 extends to the end of Romans 9:13, and the object of it is to clear the way by...
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...
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....
(6) For this [is] the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son. (6) A reason of that application: because Isaac was born by the power of the promise, and therefore he was n...
To prove that the children of Abraham are the children of the promise, he adduces the passage of Scripture: "I will come in a year's time, and Sara shall have a son." (Genesis xviii.) This promised ch...
“ _Not as though the word of God were made of no effect; for they are not all Israel_, _which are of Israel. Neither because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children; but, In Isaac shall th...
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...
This verse is simply intended to justify the expression: _children of the promise_, Romans 9:8. When the apostle says: _a word of promise_, he means: a word which had the free character of a promise,...
Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: (7) Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall 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...
9._For the word of promise is this, etc. _He adds another divine testimony; and we see, by the application made of it, with what care and skill he explains Scripture. When he says, the Lord said that...
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...
FOR THIS IS THE WORD OF PROMISE,.... The following passage is the Scripture, which contains the promise concerning the birth of Isaac; which was the produce, not of nature, but of divine grace and pow...
For this _is_ the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son. Ver. 9. _At this time_] _See Trapp on "_ Gen 18:10 _"_...
_For this is the word of promise_ To show that Isaac was a son of promise, (and so a meet type of those that should be begotten of God by the promise of the gospel through faith,) he cites the words o...
THE WORD OF PROMISE; GENESIS 18:10-14; Genesis 25:21-23....
The promises of God concern the spiritual descendants of Abraham:...
FOR THIS IS THE WORD OF PROMISE, AT THIS TIME WILL I COME, AND SARAH SHALL HAVE A SON. From what the apostle had said in the first verses of the chapter the Jews might argue that he was setting aside...
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...
God made a promise. It was kept. Sarah shall have a son. She had Isaac. 10 Same is true of Rebecca. She had Jacob. 11 God had a plan. Foreknowledge of God said: 1. Before they were born. 2. Befo...
FOR THIS IS. WORD OF PROMISE, ACCORDING TO THIS SEASON WILL. COME, AND SARAH SHALL HAVE. SON. 'this is' -'this is what the promise said' (Gspd). (Genesis 18:10) Indicating that the 'child' of promis...
6-13 The rejection of the Jews by the gospel dispensation, did not break God's promise to the patriarchs. The promises and threatenings shall be fulfilled. Grace does not run in the blood; nor are sa...
The birth of Isaac was a thing extraordinary; for which, neither Abraham nor Sarah had any ground to hope, but only that promise made, GENESIS 18:10, in these words: _At this time, _ or according to t...
For this is a word of promise [this is the saying or promise that brought Isaac into being, and made him a child of promise and not of natural birth-- Genesis 18:10], _According to this season_ [Godet...
Romans 9:9 For G1063 this G3778 word G3056 promise G1860 At G2596 this G5126 time G2540 come G2064 ...
THE REJECTION OF THEIR MESSIAH BY THE MAJORITY OF ISRAEL HAS NOT BROUGHT THE WORD OF GOD TO NOUGHT FOR IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE CASE THAT NOT ALL OF SUPPOSED ISRAEL ARE TRULY ISRAEL, BUT ONLY THOSE WHO...
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...
NOT ALL ISRAEL ARE THE TRUE ISRAEL. THE TRUE ISRAEL ARE A REMNANT OF ISRAEL CHOSEN BY GOD, TOGETHER WITH SOME BELIEVING GENTILES. FOR GOD HAS A RIGHT TO DO WHAT HE WILL (9:6-29). Paul now begins to es...
‘That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed. For this is a word of promise, “According to this season will I come, an...
Romans 9:9. FOR OF PROMISE IS THIS WORD. We restore the emphatic order of the original. That ‘the children of the promise are reckoned as seed' is proven, for the word, in accordance with which the bi...
II. _God's Promise is not Void._ The rejection of the gospel by the Jews, which has caused the deep emotion of the Apostle in view of their great privileges (Romans 9:1-5), does not render God's promi...
A WORD OF PROMISE (επαγγελιας ο λογος ουτος). Literally, "this word is one of promise." Paul combines Genesis 18:10; Genesis 18:14 from the LXX....
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...
FOR GOD'S PROMISE. This promise made the birth of Isaac _supernormal._ Isaac is called: "his only son" (Hebrews 11:17); even though Abraham had other sons; because Isaac was the son of promise. Only t...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 9:9 THE PROMISE (Genesis 18:10, Genesis 18:14) was not give
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 9:13. AS IT IS WRITTEN, JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED—There is no necessity to soften the “hated” into “loved less”; the words in Malachi proceed on the fullest meaning of ἐ...
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...
Genesis 17:21; Genesis 18:10; Genesis 18:14; Genesis 21:2; Hebrews 1
This is the word of promise. The A. V. obscures the true sense. There is no article, and the emphasis is on promise. "I say 'a word of promise, ' for a word of promise is this which follows." Or, as M...
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...
For this is the word of the promise — By the power of which Isaac was conceived, and not by the power of nature. Not, Whosoever is born of thee shall be blessed, but, At this time — Which I now appoin...