Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Romans 9:25
Beloved — As a spouse. Who once was not beloved — Consequently, not unconditionally elected. This relates directly to the final restoration of the Jews. Hosea 2:23
Beloved — As a spouse. Who once was not beloved — Consequently, not unconditionally elected. This relates directly to the final restoration of the Jews. Hosea 2:23
Verse 25. _AS HE SAITH ALSO IN OSEE_] It is a cause of not a little confusion, that a uniformity in the orthography of the proper names of the Old and New Testaments has not been preserved. What _str...
AS HE SAITH ALSO - The doctrine which he had established, he proceeds now to confirm by quotations from the writings of Jews, that he might remove every objection. The doctrine was, * That God inten...
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...
ALSO, &C. = in Hosea also. PEOPLE. See Acts 2:47. Quoted from Hosea 2:23. Compare 1 Peter 2:10....
(D) Quotations in Application 25. _Osee_ In the Gr., OSEË or HOSEË; the equivalent of the Heb. _Hoshea_. Here, lit., IN THE OSEË; i.e., probably, "in the writings of Hosea." _I will call_, &c. Hosea...
The four quotations are cited to show that the prophets contemplated that the choice of the chosen people would be maintained only in a remnant, and that there would be a choice of others also. There...
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...
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...
25. Hosea 2:23. The original refers to the restoration of the ten tribes, who had fallen from their privileged state. S. Paul applies this to the inclusion in the privileged state of Gentiles who had...
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AS HE SAITH ALSO IN OSEE— Here are two quotations out of the prophet Hosea,—_first,_ ch. Romans 1:10 where, immediately after God had rejected the ten tribes, Romans 9:9. (_Ye are not my people, and I...
_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...
As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. AS HE SAITH ALSO IN OSEE ('Hosea') - observe here again our apostle's way of...
__ God's Sovereignty-National 25 A comparison of Hos_2:23 with Hos_1:9-11 shows that this is not an _ interpretation _ but an _ illustration_. God, in His sovereign mercy, will reverse the sentence...
9:25 Hosea, (a-6) See Hosea 2:23 ....
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...
AS HE SAITH ALSO IN OSEE. — The original of the prophecy in Hosea relates to the pardon and reconciliation promised to the apostate and idolatrous people of the northern kingdom. It is here typically...
(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...
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...
f. This result of God's ways with man His calling not only from the Jews but from the Gentiles agrees with His own declarations in Scripture. Romans 9:25 answers roughly to Hosea 2:23, LXX: I will lov...
STUMBLING OVER THE CORNERSTONE Romans 9:25 There has been a notable transference of privilege from the Jew to the Gentile believer. This is not due to fickleness on God's part, but to a fatal defect...
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....
(25) As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. (25) Our vocation or calling is free, and of grace, even as our predestina...
And, first, Romans 9:25-26: the proclamation by the prophets of the calling of the Gentiles; then Romans 9:27-29: that of the rejection of the mass of the Jewish people....
“ _As He saith also in Osee, I will call that my people, which was not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye a...
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...
25._As he says in Hosea, _(310) _etc. _He proves now that the calling of the Gentiles ought not to have been deemed a new thing, as it had long before been testified by the prediction of the prophet....
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...
AS HE ALSO SAITH IN OSEE,.... Hosea 2:23, so "Hosea" is called "Osee", as here, in the Septuagint in Ne 10:23. That is, as God says in the prophecy of Hosea, which was given by divine inspiration; and...
As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. Ver. 25. _And her beloved_] Jeremiah 12:7. God calls the Church the beloved of...
_Even us, whom he hath called_ By his gospel and his grace, to repentance, faith, and holiness, and hath enabled us to obey the call; we are these vessels of mercy, of what nation soever we may be; _n...
OSEE; the Greek form of the Hebrew word Hosea. Hosea 2:23. CALL THEM MY PEOPLE-NOT BELOVED; those who had been cast off as enemies, he would reclaim and gather as friends....
God's power exerted in the interest of men:...
AS HE SAITH ALSO IN HOSEA, I WILL CALL THEM MY PEOPLE WHICH WERE NOT MY PEOPLE, AND HER BELOVED WHICH WAS NOT BELOVED....
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...
Quote from Hosea 2:23. God can adopt anyone He wants to adopt. Those which are not His people, can be made the people of God. God can love whom He wants to love. 26 The prophecy will be fulfilled (H...
AS HE SAITH ALSO IN HOSEA,. WILL CALL THAT MY PEOPLE, WHICH WAS NOT MY PEOPLE; AND HER BELOVED, THAT WAS NOT BELOVED....
25-29 The rejecting of the Jews, and the taking in the Gentiles, were foretold in the Old Testament. It tends very much to the clearing of a truth, to observe how the Scripture is fulfilled in it. It...
Here the apostle proves, that the Gentiles were children of the Promise, or that the promise belonged to them, as well as to the Jews: and because the Jews could not endure to hear of this, he cites t...
As he saith also in Hosea [Paul does not seek to prove his question about God's grace to the wicked which he exercises instead of his right to immediate punishment -- that needs no proof. That God wis...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I and proclaim in what sense [God] says, "`That is a people who was not a people; and she is beloved who was not beloved; "[142] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III an...
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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...
‘As he says also in Hosea (Greek - Osee), “I will call that my people, who were not my people, and her beloved, who was not beloved”.' Paul then cites Hosea in order to demonstrate that it has always...
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...
Romans 9:25. AS HE SAITH ALSO IN HOSEA (Romans 2:23). The Hebrew text is here followed more closely than the Septuagint. What has just been said of the Gentiles accords with (‘as') this prophecy; ‘als...
IN HOSEA (εν τω Hωσηε). He quotes Romans 2:23 with some freedom. Hosea refers to the ten tribes and Paul applies the principle stated there to the Gentiles. Hosea had a son named _Lo-ammi_ = ου λαος...
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...
THIS IS WHAT HE SAYS. [Romans 9:25 quotes Hosea 2:23; Romans 9:26; Hosea 1:10; both from the Septuagint.] God's action in calling people from among both Jews and
_As He saith also in Osee, I will call them My people, which were not My people._ THE CALLING OF THE GENTILES I. Their former condition. 1. Not My people. 2. Not beloved. II. Their gracious call-...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 9:25 Paul quotes Hosea 2:23 and Hosea 1:10 to illustrate God’s amazing grace. Those who...
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 9:25.—Refers not only to the gathering again of the Israelites rejected in the carrying away by Shalmaneser, but also of the Gentiles rejected at the building of Babel; remnan...
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 2:10; Ezekiel 16:8; Hosea 1:1; Hosea 1:2; Hosea 2:23;...
That my people which was not my people [τ ο ν ο υ λ α ο ν μ ο υ, λ α ο ν μ ο υ]. The Greek is much more condensed. "I will call the not - my - people my - people." See Hosea 1:6-9. The reference is to...
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...
Our apostle having hitherto vindicated the wisdom and righteousness of God in the rejection of the Jews, and calling of the Gentiles; lest the Jews should stumble and take offence at it, in these and...