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Romans 9:10
And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac,
And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac,
Verse Romans 9:10. _AND NOT ONLY THIS_] A Jew might object: "Ishmael was rejected, not by the sovereign will of God, but because he was the son of the _handmaid_, or _bond-woman_, and therefore unwor...
AND NOT ONLY THIS - Not only is the principle of making a distinction among the natural descendants of Abraham thus settled by the promise, but it is still further seen and illustrated in the birth of...
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...
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
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...
BY. Greek. _ek_. App-104....
_And not only this_ Here a still stronger example of sovereign choice occurs. Isaac and Ishmael had only one parent in common; Jacob and Esau had both. In the former case, the choice of Isaac was decl...
ΟΥ̓ ΜΌΝΟΝ ΔΈ, Κ.Τ.Λ. The same principle is seen in the selection of one of two sons, born at one birth of one father and mother, even before birth or any act on their part....
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...
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...
'ΡΕΒΈΚΚΑ (G4479) Ревекка. Вероятно, лучше всего воспринимать это как _пот. abs._, вводящий утверждения ст. 11 и 12 (Murray), ΚΟΊΤΗ (G2845) постель, сексуальная связь (SB, 3:265-66). Используется с ΈΧ...
_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...
And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; AND NOT ONLY [THIS], OR [SO]; BUT WHEN REBECCA ALSO HAD CONCEIVED BY ONE, EVEN BY OUR FATHER ISAAC....
__ 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...
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...
Nor was the restriction and special selection confined to the case of Abraham alone. It also appeared when Rebecca bore sons to Isaac. It was indeed _pure_ selection. The children themselves had done...
(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...
ff. But the argument can be made more decisive. A Jewish opponent might say, “Ishmael was an illegitimate child, who naturally had no rights as against Isaac; we are the legitimate descendants of 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....
(7) And not only [this]; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, [even] by our father Isaac; (7) Another strong and persuasive proof taken from the example of Esau and Jacob, who were both born of...
and not only she (Sara) brought forth Isaac, who was the only child of Abraham, to whom the promises descended, though he was the father of Ismael, by Agar, and of all the Ismaelites. And lest the Jew...
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...
“ _And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil_, _that the purpose of God accordi...
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...
10._And not only, etc. _There are in this chapter some broken _sentences, _such as this is, — _But Rebecca also, who had conceived by one, our father Isaac; _for he leaves off in the middle, before he...
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...
AND NOT ONLY THIS,.... This instance of Ishmael and Isaac, is not the only one, proving that Abraham's natural seed, the children of the flesh, are not all children, the children of God: BUT WHEN REB...
And not only _this_; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, _even_ by our father Isaac; Ver. 10. _But when Rebecca_] She, and not Isaac, is named, because she received the oracle, whether from t...
_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...
AND NOT ONLY THIS; not only did God in this care reject a part of Abraham's seed by natural descent. BY OUR FATHER ISAAC; to be connected immediately with verse Romans 9:12; in intermediate verse bei...
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...
AND NOT ONLY SO; BUT REBECCA ALSO HAVING CONCEIVED BY ONE, EVEN BY OUR FATHER ISAAC-- 'And not only so' -'Nor is that all' (TCNT). 'Paul had said plenty already but there was more to come. Suppose i...
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...
AND NOT ONLY THIS; some read it, And not only she; the particle _this_ is not in the Greek. WHEN REBECCA ALSO HAD CONCEIVED BY ONE, EVEN BY OUR FATHER ISAAC: this instance is added, because there migh...
And not only so [Not only is Ishmael rejected for the promised Isaac, but even Isaac's seed, his two sons Esau and Jacob, are made the subject of choice by God, showing that even the seed of the child...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV from the Word, "that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him that calleth, it was said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb,...
Romans 9:10 And G1161 not G3756 only G3440 but G235 Rebecca G4479 also G2532 conceived G2845 by G1537 one...
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...
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...
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...
‘And not only so; but Rebecca also having conceived by one, even by our father Isaac. For the children being not yet born, nor having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to el...
Romans 9:10. AND NOT ONLY THIS. These words introduce a second proof from history, namely, the case of Rebecca and her two sons, one of whom was chosen. ‘This,' is preferable to ‘so,' because this cas...
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...
HAVING CONCEIVED OF ONE (εξ ενος κοιτην εχουσα). By metonomy with cause for the effect we have this peculiar idiom (κοιτη being bed, marriage bed), "having a marriage bed from one" husband. One fat...
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...
AND THIS IS NOT ALL. The Jew might say: "Ishmael was illegitimate and had no rights. We are legitimate descendants of the patriarch and have Chosen People' status." Paul now shows that God has the rig...
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...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 9:9 THE PROMISE (Genesis 18:10, Genesis 18:14) was not give
_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 25:21; Luke 16:26; Romans 5:11; Romans 5:3...
And not only so. The thought to be supplied is : Not only have we an example of the election of a son of Abraham by one woman, and a rejection of his son by another, but also of the election and rejec...
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...
And that God's blessing does not belong to all the descendants of Abraham, appears not only by this instance, but by that of Esau and Jacob, who was chosen to inherit the blessing, before either of th...
Our apostle having in the foregoing verses proved, from what was done in Abraham's family, that it was the purpose and pleasure of God to account only those for Abraham's seed who were the children of...