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Romans 9:22
What if God, willing to show His wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction,
What if God, willing to show His wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction,
Verse 22. What _IF GOD, WILLING TO SHOW_ his _wrath_] The apostle refers here to the case of _Pharaoh_ and the _Egyptians_, and to which he applies Jeremiah's parable of the potter, and, from them, t...
WHAT IF GOD ... - If God does what the apostle supposes, what then? Is it not right? This is the second point in the answer to the objection in Romans 9:19. The answer has respect to the “two classes”...
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:...
THE DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY IN JUDGMENT. Romans 9:19 f. The hard saying just enunciated provokes the question, Why does He blame, if the hardening is His doing and none may resist His will? Paul forgoes th...
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, then, you may ask, "If this is so how can God go on blaming men if they do not take his way? Who can withstand God's purpose?" Fellow! Who are you to be arguing with God? Surely the thing that is...
IF. App-118. POWER. Greek. _to dunaton._ WITH. App-104. THE. Omit. FITTED. pieced up together, as. broken vessel. App-125. TO. App-104. DESTRUCTION. perdition, as in John 17:12. From this is it n...
_What if God_, &c. The Gr. construction in Romans 9:22-23 is broken and peculiar. Rendered nearly lit., the verses run: BUT IF GOD, CHOOSING TO DEMONSTRATE HIS WRATH, AND MAKE KNOWN WHAT HE CAN DO, BO...
ΕἸ ΔῈ.… No apodosis follows: the current is broken by the introduction of prophetic passages Romans 9:25 f. What apodosis was intended? The thought passes from the abstract relation of Creator to crea...
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...
ΘΈΛΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΘΈΛΩ (G2309) желать. _Praes._ описывает текущую деятельность. Subst. part. ΈΝΔΕΊΞΑΣΘΑΙ _aor. inf. med. (dep.) от_ ΈΝΔΕΊΚΝΥΜΙ (G1731) показывать, доказывать, демонстрироват...
DISCOURSE: 1886 GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY NOT TO BE ARRAIGNED BY MEN Romans 9:19. Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? Nay but, O man, who art thou that repl...
WHAT IF GOD, WILLING, &C.— See on ch. Romans 1:18. Immediately after the instance of Pharaoh, whom God declared that he raised up to shew his power in him, Romans 9:17 it is subjoined, Romans 9:18, _A...
_TEXT_ Romans 9:19-29. Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he still find fault? For who withstandeth his will? Romans 9:20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing form...
What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: WHAT IF GOD, WILLING TO SHOW ('DESIGNING TO MANIFEST...
__ 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...
LONGSUFFERING] cp. Romans 2:4. VESSELS] the metaphor of the potter continued. OF WRATH] i.e. deserving wrath. FITTED] St. Paul does not say, 'God had made them fit for destruction' (contrast 'afore pr...
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...
(22-29) These verses supply the concluding section of the vindication. All this scheme of God’s dealings, apparently so severe, is really most merciful. To those who really deserved His wrath, He show...
WHAT IF ... — The sentence in the original is incomplete. In its full form it would run, “If God willing to show His wrath”... (what can man reply?) This latter clause is dropped or lost in the course...
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...
Paul's argument, to speak plainly, has got into an _impasse_. He is not able to carry it through, and to maintain the sovereign freedom of God as the whole and sole explanation of human destiny, wheth...
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD'S CHOICES Romans 9:14 God desires to do His best for every man. But, as in the case of Esau, who wantonly sold his birthright, and of Pharaoh, who turned all God's revelation...
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....
(22) [What] if God, willing to shew [his] wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the (y) vessels of wrath fitted to (23) destruction: (22) The second answer is this, that...
And if God, &c. He now gives the reason why God might, without any injustice, have mercy on some, and not on others; grant particular graces and favours to his elect, and not equally to all; because a...
“ _Now if God, willing to show His wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And_ [_if_] _that He might make known the riches of...
VV. 22 describes God's dealing with the vessels unto dishonor; Romans 9:23-24 will describe His dealing with the vessels of value. The relation between the participle θέλων, _willing_, and the verb ἤν...
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...
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...
22._And what, etc. _A second answer, by which he briefly shows, that though the counsel of God is in fact incomprehensible, yet his unblamable justice shines forth no less in the perdition of the repr...
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 IF GOD, WILLING TO SHOW HIS WRATH,.... The apostle proceeds to clear God from any charge of cruelty and unmercifulness, by observing his conduct in time, both towards those he passes by, and towa...
_What_ if God, willing to shew _his_ wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: Ver. 22. _Fitted to destruction_] _Non dicit Deum...
Rom. 9:22, 23. "What if God, willing to shew His wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction; and that He might make known the riche...
_What if God, willing_, &c. Referring to Romans 9:18. That is, Although it were now his will, because of their obstinate unbelief; _to show his wrath_ Which necessarily presupposes sin; _and to make h...
WHAT IF GOD, WILLING; judged it best to manifest his wrath against transgressors of his laws and opposers of his government, and thus show his power to destroy his enemies and save his friends. ENDURE...
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...
"What if...?" 1. God wants to show His wrath, anger? 2. God wants to show His power? 3. God wants to be long-suffering with wickedness? 23 4. God wants to show His riches and glory? 5. God want t...
FITTED: Or, made up...
__ Romans 9:22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction: 'Willing to show his wrath' -i.e. agains...
14-24 Whatever God does, must be just. Wherein the holy, happy people of God differ from others, God's grace alone makes them differ. In this preventing, effectual, distinguishing grace, he acts as a...
In this and in the next verse, is a real answer to the cavil in ROMANS 9:19. The apostle having spoken before of God's absolute right and power over his creatures, to dispose of them at his pleasure,...
What if [With these words Paul introduces his real answer to the question asked in verse 19. The full idea runs thus: "I have answered your impudent question by an assertion of the absolute right of G...
Romans 9:22 if G1487 G1161 God G2316 wanting G2309 (G5723) show G1731 (G5670) wrath G3709 and...
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...
GOD HAS THE SOVEREIGN RIGHT TO DO WHAT HE CHOOSES, AND TO SAVE WHOM HE WILL (9:19-29). Paul does not hide from the consequences of what he has been saying. He rather defends it by appealing to God's a...
‘What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted to destruction,' Paul then directly applies his illustration of the Potter...
Romans 9:22. BUT WHAT IF GOD. The construction is elliptical: the original is simply: ‘but if.' We may supply, as follows: ‘But _what will be said,_ if,' _i.e._, How can the objection raised be urged,...
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...
WILLING (θελων). Concessive use of the participle, "although willing," not causal, "because willing" as is shown by "with much long-suffering" (εν πολλη μακροθυμια, in much long-suffering).HIS POWE...
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...
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...
HE WANTED TO SHOW. "God's will in relation to man is difficult to understand, but if his actual treatment of them is "patient in enduring," what can you say against that?" [Destroyed = condemned to he...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 9:22 The salvation of any person is due to the marvelous grace and love of God. ⇐ ⇔
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 9:17.—According to Sir G. Wilkinson, the Pharaoh here meant was Thothmes III., not drowned, but overthrown in the Red Sea. Reigned twenty-five years after that event. So Jewish...
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 Peter 2:8; 1 Peter 3:20; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; 1 Thessalonians 5:9;...
Willing [θ ε λ ω ν]. Although willing, not because. Referring not to the determinate purpose of God, but to His spontaneous will growing out of His holy character. In the former sense, the meaning wou...
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...
What if God, being willing — Referring to Romans 9:18. That is, although it was now his will, because of their obstinate unbelief, To show his wrath — Which necessarily presupposes sin. And to make hi...
As if the apostle had said, "What though God doth not presently punish the obstinate and unbelieving Jews according to their desert, but beareth with them, and exercises forbearance towards them, and...