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Romans 9:3
For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,
For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,
Verse Romans 9:3. _FOR I COULD WISH THAT MYSELF WERE ACCURSED FROM_ _CHRIST_] This and the two preceding verses are thus paraphrased by Dr. Taylor: I am so far from insisting on the doctrine (of the...
FOR I COULD WISH ... - This passage has been greatly controverted. Some have proposed to translate it, “I did wish,” as referring to a former state, when he renounced Christ, and sought to advance the...
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
COULD. used to. Figure of speech _Anamnesis._ App-6. WISH. App-134. ACCURSED. See Acts 23:14. CHRIST. the Christ. See Romans 9:1. The words in Romans 9:3 "For I" to "Christ" are in. parenthesis. Fig...
_I could wish_ Lit., I WAS WISHING; the imperfect. A similar imperfect occurs Galatians 4:20; where lit., "I was desiring." Without discussing the grammatical theory of the construction we may _paraph...
ΗΥ̓ΧΌΜΗΝ. Cf. Acts 25:22; Galatians 4:20; Philemon 1:13. Here of an impracticable wish, ‘I could have prayed if it had been possible’; Blass, p. 207. Contrast...
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...
ΗΎΧΌΜΗΝ _impf. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΕΎΧΟΜΑΙ (G2172) молиться, желать; идиоматический _impf._, "я желал бы" (RWP; о желательном _impf. см._ IBG, 9). ΑΝΆΘΕΜΑ (G331) вещь или человек, преданный разрушен...
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...
THAT MYSELF WERE ACCURSED, &C.— _That I myself were to be devoted to death_ [or _made a sacrifice_] _after the example of Christ._ Pere Simon has it, _For the sake of Christ:—Propter Christum._ But th...
_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...
For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: FOR I COULD WISH THAT MYSELF WERE ACCURSED FROM CHRIST, [ Eeuchomeen (G2172) gar (G1063) a...
__ 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...
9:3 brethren, (b-16) I apprehend, in the apostle's mind the phrase 'for my brethren' is connected with both 'pain in my heart' and 'a curse from Christ;' he parenthetically states how far his heart h...
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...
I COULD WISH] i.e. if it were lawful and possible. ACCURSED] RV 'anathema,' reproducing the Gk.: cp. 1 Corinthians 12:3; 1 Corinthians 16:22; Galatians 1:8.; The word is used in LXX of th
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...
I COULD WISH ... — Rather, _I could have wished._ The wish, of course, related to what was really impossible. Still it is a nobly generous impulse, at which some weak minds have been shocked, and out...
(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....
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...
ηὐχόμην γὰρ ἀνάθεμα εἶναι κ. τ. λ. For I could wish that I myself were anathema, etc. For the omission of ἂν see Acts 25:22; Galatians 4:20. Paul could wish this if it were a wish that could be realis...
The intense pain with which Paul contemplates the unbelief of his countrymen....
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....
For I could wish that myself were (a) accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the (b) flesh: (a) The apostle loved his brethren so completely that if it had been possible he wou...
I wished myself to be an anathema from Christ. [1] The word anathema, according to its derivation, signifies a thing separated or laid apart for some particular use. Hence it was put to signify things...
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)....
Rom 9:2-3 contain the matter of that _truth_ so solemnly announced in Romans 9:1. The parallelism of the two propositions of the verse, as always, is the indication of a rising feeling. A triple grada...
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...
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...
3._For I could wish, etc. _He could not have expressed a greater ardour of love than by what he testifies here; for that is surely perfect love which refuses not to die for the salvation of a friend....
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 I COULD WISH THAT MYSELF WERE ACCURSED FROM CHRIST,.... Some consider this as the reason of the apostle's great heaviness, and continual sorrow of heart, because he had made such a wish as this, a...
For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: Ver. 3. _Were accursed_] Devoted to destruction, αναθεμα, as those malefactors among the hea...
Rom. 9:3. "For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh." In the original it is "that myself were 'anathema' from Christ." The Apostle's me...
_For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ (_ The word αναθεμα, here rendered _accursed_, answers to the Hebrew word חרם, _cherem_, which signifies what is devoted to destruction. And, as...
I COULD WISH; were it proper, or would it benefit them. ACCURSED FROM CHRIST; subjected to the greatest calamities for his brethren, if by this means they could be saved. While true religion leads th...
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...
ACCURSED: Or, separated...
FOR. COULD WISH THAT. MYSELF WERE ANATHEMA FROM CHRIST FOR MY BRETHREN'S SAKE, MY KINSMEN ACCORDING TO THE FLESH: 'I could wish' -'I was on the point of wishing' (Robertson p. 380). 'So strongly did...
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...
OLBGrk; I COULD WISH THAT MYSELF WERE ACCURSED FROM CHRIST; or, separated from Christ. This verse hath greatly vexed interpreters. Some read it, I did wish myself accursed from Christ: q.d. Before my...
For I could wish [Literally, "I was wishing." Some therefore regard Paul as referring to his attitude to Christ while he was persecuting the church in the days before his conversion. But Paul is asser...
Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews Also Paul to the Romans: "I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren and my kindred according to the flesh:...
Romans 9:3 For G1063 I G1473 wish G2172 (G5711) myself G846 were G1511 (G5750) accursed G331 from...
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...
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...
‘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...
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 9:3. FOR I COULD WISH THAT I MYSELF, etc. The order of the better established reading makes ‘accursed' (lit., ‘anathema') more emphatic, and forbids our taking ‘I myself' as the subject of ‘cou...
I COULD WISH (ηυχομην). Idiomatic imperfect, "I was on the point of wishing." We can see that ευχομα (I do wish) would be wrong to say. Αν ηυχομην would mean that he does not wish (conclusion of se...
Romans 9:3 Christian Patriotism. I. It is a noble paradox. The sacrifice which is offered is impossible. There is something of sadness in the passion which suggests it. Great as is the offering, how...
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...
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...
FOR THEIR SAKE. What he says is that he would be willing to be under God's curse himself and lost ETERNALLY, if it would help to bring his nation to Christ!!! This shows how much he loved his Jewish 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 Samuel 14:24; 1 Samuel 14:44; Acts 13:26; Acts 7:23; Deuterono
I could wish [η υ χ ο μ η ν]. Or pray as 2 Corinthians 13:7; 2 Corinthians 13:9; James 5:16. Lit., I was wishing; but the imperfect here has a tentative force, implying the wish begun, but stopped at...
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...
I could wish — Human words cannot fully describe the motions of souls that are full of God. As if he had said, I could wish to suffer in their stead; yea, to be an anathema from Christ in their place....
That is, "So great is my concern for the salvation of my brethren the Jews, that. could undergo the greatest misery and evil that can befall myself, to prevent their destruction." This wish of St. Pau...