That he might make known — What if by showing such longsuffering even to "the vessels of wrath," he did the more abundantly show the greatness of his glorious goodness, wisdom, and power, on the vessels of mercy; on those whom he had himself, by his grace, prepared for glory. Is this any injustice?
ROMANS 9:23 kai. i[na {A} The absence of kai, from several witnesses (B 326 436 1739mg itar, b vg copsa, bomss goth arm) was thought by the Committee to have been the result of an attempt to simplify...
Verse 23. _AND THAT HE MIGHT MAKE KNOWN_] God endured with much long-suffering the _vessels of wrath_: 1. To _show his wrath_, and to make his power known. And also, 2. That he might make known the...
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...
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...
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
RICHES. See Romans 2:4. AFORE PREPARED. Greek. _proetoimazo_. Only here and Ephesians 2:10....
_and that he might_ Some such clause as "so acted," or better, "so had patience," must be mentally supplied. The idea of the patience of God seems to attach here to both parts of the statement: so far...
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...
ἽΝΑ ΓΝΩΡΊΣΗΙ. The object of the patience of GOD is to bring home to men’s minds ‘the wealth of His glory’; cf. Romans 11:32-33. ἵνα depends on ἤνεγκεν. The patience effected this object, because the m...
ΓΝΩΡΊΣΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΓΝΩΡΊΖΩ (G1107) делать известным. _Conj._ с ΊΝ (G2443) выражает цель, ΔΌΞΑ (G1391) честь, слава, ΈΛΕΟΣ (G1656) милость, ΠΡΟΗΤΟΊΜΑΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΡΟΕΤΟΙΜΆΖΩ (G4...
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...
AND THAT HE MIGHT MAKE KNOWN— Mr. Locke thinks the sense of the place requires, that the _and_ should be left out, as it is in some manuscripts: but the _and_ seems essential to the text, and to the 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...
And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, AND THAT HE MIGHT MAKE KNOWN THE RICHES OF HIS GLORY ON THE VESSELS OF MERCY. T...
__ 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...
MIGHT MAKE KNOWN] cp. Romans 11:11. OF MERCY] i.e. experiencing mercy. PREPARED] cp. Romans 8:28. 25, 26. From Hosea 1:10; Hosea 2:23
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...
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...
f. The sentence beginning with εἰ δὲ θέλων is not grammatically completed, but Romans 9:23 is an irregular parallel to Romans 9:22. God's purpose is regarded as twofold. It is on the one hand to show...
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....
And that he might make known the (z) riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, (z) The unmeasurable and marvellous greatness....
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...
Here God is presented to us as the potter, laboring to form the vessels of honor. How are we to construe the proposition: _And that He might make known?_ The most forced construction is that of Ewald...
“ _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...
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...
23._That he might also make known the riches of his glory, etc. _I doubt not but the two particles καὶ ἵνα, is an instance of a construction, where the first word is put last; ( ὕστερον πρότερον) and...
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 THAT HE MIGHT MAKE KNOWN THE RICHES OF HIS GLORY,.... That is, his glorious riches, the perfections of his nature, his love, grace, and mercy, his wisdom, power, faithfulness, justice, and holines...
And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, Ver. 23. _And that he might_] He rejected some, that his mercy might the more app...
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...
THE RICHES OF HIS GLORY; the glorious perfections of his character, especially of his mercy and grace. THE VESSELS OF MERCY; those whom he mercifully led to repent of their sins and believe on Christ...
God's power exerted in the interest of men:...
AND THAT HE MIGHT MAKE KNOWN THE RICHES OF HIS GLORY ON THE VESSELS OF MERCY, WHICH HE HAD AFORE PREPARED UNTO GLORY,...
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...
AND THAT HE MIGHT MAKE KNOWN THE RICHES OF HIS GLORY UPON VESSELS OF MERCY, WHICH HE AFORE PREPARED UNTO GLORY, "AFORE PREPARED UNTO GLORY" -no predestination here. Glory is only for those that 'endur...
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...
q.d. Again, on the other side, what hast thou to say, if he proceed more mercifully with others? Seeing: 1. He thereby manifesteth _the riches of his glory, _ or his glorious grace; and seeing: 2. Th...
and [A copula of thoughts, rather than of clauses: God spared the wicked because of longsuffering mercy to them, and because they could be used to aid him in making known the riches of his glory upon...
Romans 9:23 and G2532 that G2443 known G1107 (G5661) riches G4149 His G846 glory G1391 on G1909 vessels...
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...
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...
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...
‘And that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand to glory, even us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?' Hav...
Romans 9:23. AND THAT, or, ‘also that,' in order that the omission of ‘and' by some authorities was probably due to an effort to relieve the difficult construction. The simplest view is to translate ‘...
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...
VESSELS OF MERCY (σκευη ελεους). Objective genitive like σκευη οργης.AFORE PREPARED (προητοιμασεν). First aorist active indicative of προετοιμαζω, old verb to make ready (from ετοιμος, ready) and...
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...
AND HE WANTED ALSO TO REVEAL. This completes the thought in Romans 9:22. God: (1) shows his wrath and power; (2) reveals his rich glory. But in both of these, God acts in such a way that not only can...
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 Chronicles 29:18; 1 Peter 1:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:9; 2 Thessalonians 1:10;...
And that He might make known. The connection is variously explained. Some make and that dependent on He endured : "If, willing to show His wrath.... God endured... and also that." Others make that dep...
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...