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Romans 9:7
neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children; but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children; but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
Verse Romans 9:7. _NEITHER BECAUSE THEY ARE THE SEED OF ABRAHAM_, c.] Nor can they conclude, because they are the natural descendants of Abraham, that therefore they are all of them, without exception...
ARE THEY ALL CHILDREN - Adopted into the true family of God. Many of the descendants of Abraham were rejected. BUT IN ISAAC - This was the promise; Genesis 21:12. SHALL THY SEED ... - Thy true people...
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...
NEITHER. Greek. _oude._ CHILDREN. Greek. _teknon._ App-108....
_neither because_, &c. An illustration from manifest fact, to shew that an apparently inclusive promise may be limited. We may paraphrase: "Abraham's descendants, again, are not all his _-children" in...
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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...
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BUT, IN ISAAC SHALL THY SEED BE CALLED— It should be considered, and well noted, that the Apostle, in this and the following quotations, does not give us the whole of the text which he intends should...
_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...
Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. NEITHER, BECAUSE THEY ARE THE SEED OF ABRAHAM, ARE THEY ALL CHILDREN: - q.d., 'Not in...
__ 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...
9:7 thee. (f-20) See Genesis 21:12 ....
SEED OF ABRAHAM] i.e. by natural descent. CHILDREN] i.e. inheriting privilege. In ISAAC, etc.] from Genesis 21:12....
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...
Neither are all the bodily descendants of Abraham also his spiritual descendants. It was expressly stated from the first that the promise was confined to a particular branch of his posterity. The post...
(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...
Nor because they are Abraham's seed, are they all τέκνα, _i.e._, children in the sense which entitles them to the inheritance, Romans 4:11; Romans 8:17. God from the very first made a distinction here...
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....
Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, [are they] all children: (4) but, In (i) Isaac shall thy seed be called. (4) The first proof is taken from the example of Abraham's own house, in which...
Not as though the word of God hath failed in his promises made to Abraham and the patriarchs. The Jews pretended that the promises were made to them only, and to those that were of their race, and tha...
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...
“ _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...
The first proposition of this verse has almost the same meaning as the second of Romans 9:6, but with a different shade intimated by the particle οὐδέ, _neither further._ The apostle, by way of transi...
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...
7._But, “In Isaac shall thy seed be called.” _Paul mentions this, to show that the hidden election of God overrules the outward calling, and that it is yet by no means inconsistent with it, but, on th...
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...
NEITHER BECAUSE THEY ARE THE SEED OF ABRAHAM,.... The Jews highly valued themselves, upon being the natural seed of Abraham; and fancied, upon this account, that they were children, which the apostle...
Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, _are they_ all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. Ver. 7. _Neither because they are_] This profiteth them no more than it did Dives that...
_Not as though_ The original expression, ουχ οιον δε οτι, is rather obscure; but Erasmus supplying, after the Greek scholiast, the words τουτο ου λεγω, seems to have given the sense of it thus; _I do...
NEITHER-ARE THEY ALL CHILDREN; in the sense of being heirs to the promise. IN ISAAC SHALL THY SEED BE CALLED; GENESIS 21:12. The meaning of these words is, that not all Abraham's children by natural...
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's Word has not failed, not lack power."THEY ARE NOT ALL ISRAEL, WHICH ARE OF ISRAEL." 1. Not all born a Jew are faithful to God. 2. Faith, not birth, is the key. APPLY: To the church - 1. "Not...
NEITHER, BECAUSE THEY ARE ABRAHAM'S SEED, ARE THEY ALL CHILDREN: BUT, IN ISAAC SHALL THY SEED BE CALLED. Here is Paul's first proof that inheriting the promises of God, were never based on 'sole phys...
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...
He had before made a difference of Israelites, and now he makes a difference of the seed of Abraham. This was ever and anon in the mouths of the Jews: _We are Abraham's seed,_ 1 THESSALONIANS 8:33. Bu...
neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children: but [as God said to Abraham-- Genesis 21:12], _In Isaac shall thy seed be called_. [I. e., the children of Isaac alone shall be known d...
Romans 9:7 nor G3761 all G3956 children G5043 because G3754 are G1526 (G5748) seed G4690 Abraham G11 but...
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...
‘Nor, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children, but, “In Isaac shall your seed be called”.' Furthermore, Paul declares that not all of Abraham's seed were to be seen as his children as f...
Romans 9:7. NEITHER; ‘and also not,' extending the same thought to physical relationship with Abraham, the father of the faithful. BECAUSE THEY; either, ‘all those of Abraham,' or, referring to the s...
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...
CHILDREN Also (Romans 9:8). (Greek, "teknon", "child"). (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 8:16). _...
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...
NEITHER ARE ALL ABRAHAM'S DESCENDANTS. Ishmael and others were Abraham's children (1 Chronicles 1:28; 1 Chronicles 1:32). THE DESCENDANTS OF ISAAC. The promise did not come through the children of Ish...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 9:6 Though many Jews have failed to believe, God’s promise to them has not failed. It was never true that _all_ of the physical CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM were part of the people 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 9:1. 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...
Genesis 21:12; Hebrews 11:18; John 8:37; Luke 16:24; Luke 16:25;...
In Isaac. Not in Ishmael, though Ishmael also was the seed of Abraham. The saying of Genesis 21:12 is directly added without it is written or it was said, because it is assumed to be well known to the...
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...
Neither because they are lineally the seed of Abraham, will it follow that they are all children of God — This did not hold even in Abraham's own family; and much less in his remote descendants. But G...