As Isaiah had said before — Namely, Isaiah 1:9, concerning those who were besieged in Jerusalem by Rezin and Pekah. Unless the Lord had left us a seed — Which denotes, The present paucity: The future abundance. We had been as Sodom — So that it is no unexampled thing for the main body of the Jewish nation to revolt from God, and perish in their sin.
Verse 29. _AND AS ESAIAS SAID BEFORE_] What God designs to do with the Jews at present, because of their obstinacy and rebellion, is similar to what he has done before, to which the same prophet refe...
AND AS ESAIAS SAID - Isaiah 1:9. BEFORE - The apostle had just cited one prediction from the tenth chapter of Isaiah. He now says that Isaiah had affirmed the same thing in a previous part of his pro...
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...
EXCEPT. If (App-118. a) not (App-105.) SABAOTH. Hosts. Only here and James 5:4. First occurance: 1 Samuel 1:11. Quoted from Isaiah 1:9. App-107. LEFT. Greek. _enkataleipo._ See...
_And_ Q. d., "And again, the small number of Jewish believers fulfils another prediction." _said before_ Lit., and better, HATH SAID BEFORE; i.e. "as _we have it_in his book." "_Before_" refers not to...
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...
Isaiah 1:9 = LX[196]. [196] LXX the Septuagint Version of the Old Testament...
ΠΡΟΕΊΡΗΚΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΠΡΟΛΈΓΩ (G3004) предрекать, ΈΓΚΑΤΈΛΙΠΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΓΚΑΤΑΛΕΊΠΩ (G1459) оставлять в покое. Используется в _conj._ 2 типа, которое противоречит фактам, ΈΓΕΝΉΘΗ...
EXCEPT THE LORD OF SABAOTH, &C.— _Lord of Hosts,_ &c. Instead of _a seed,_ the words in Isaiah are, a _very small remnant._...
_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 as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha. AND AS ESAIAS SAID ('HATH SAID') BEFORE - meaning probably in an...
__ 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...
9:29 before, (d-6) See Isaiah 1:9 ....
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...
SAID BEFORE — _i.e.,_ in an earlier part of his book. The Book of Isaiah was at this time collected in the form in which we have it. In Acts 13:33, we find an express reference to the present numberin...
(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...
But his last quotation is in verbal agreement with the LXX Isaiah 1:9, and transparently clear. The σπέρμα or seed which God leaves is the same as the ὑπόλειμμα. The figure is not to be pressed. The r...
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....
And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of (c) Sabaoth had left us a (d) seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha. (c) Armies, by which word the greatest power that exists is...
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...
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....
“ _But Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant_ [_only_] _shall be saved: for the Lord will make a short and summary reckoning o...
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...
29._And as Isaiah had before said, etc. _(314) He brings another testimony from the first chapter, where the Prophet deplores the devastation of Israel in his time: and as this had happened once, it w...
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 AS ESAIAS SAID BEFORE,.... In the beginning of his prophecy, in Isaiah 1:9. EXCEPT THE LORD OF SABAOTH HAD LEFT US A SEED; the title and character the great God goes by here, is "Lord of sabaoth...
And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha. Ver. 29. _Except the Lord of Sabaoth_] That is, of hosts. God is com...
_Esaias also_ And, as the calling of the Gentiles, so the rejection of the Jews also is foretold by the prophets, particularly by Isaiah _who crieth_ Κραζει, _calleth aloud_ Speaks with great earnestn...
ESAIAS SAID BEFORE; in an earlier passage. Isaiah 1:9. A SEED; a remnant, a few. WE HAD BEEN; destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah. By these quotations the apostle showed conclusively that the doctrine...
God's power exerted in the interest of men:...
AND AS ESAIAS SAID BEFORE, EXCEPT THE LORD OF SABAOTH HAD LEFT US A SEED, WE HAD BEEN AS SODOM, AND BEEN MADE LIKE UNTO GOMORRAH. If the question is one merely of right on the part of God, then the an...
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 is Lord of Sabaoth (hosts, armies) NOT: Sabbath = seventh day of the week When God decides to "quit us" = Sodom and Gomorrah...
AND, AS ISAIAH HATH SAID BEFORE, EXCEPT THE LORD OF SABAOTH HAD LEFT US. SEED, WE HAD BECOME AS SODOM, AND HAD BEEN MADE LIKE UNTO GOMORRAH. 'as Isaiah'. Isaiah 2:9 'SABAOTH' -4519. sabaoth sab-ah-o...
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...
AS ESAIAS SAID BEFORE; in ISAIAH 1:9. THE LORD OF SABAOTH; or, of hosts: the mighty God, whose hosts all creatures are, which execute his will, as soldiers the will of their commander. HAD LEFT US A S...
And, as Isaiah hath said before [This may mean, Isaiah has said this before me, so that I need not prophesy myself, but may appropriate his word, or, as earlier expositors (Erasmus, Calvin, Grotius, e...
Romans 9:29 And G2532 as G2531 Isaiah G2268 before G4280 (G5758) Unless G1508 LORD G2962 Sabaoth G4519 left...
‘And, as Isaiah has said before, “Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had become as Sodom, and had been made like to Gomorrah”.' This picture is then seen as confirmed by Isaiah 1:9, whe...
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...
Romans 9:29. AND, AS ISAIAH HATH SAID BEFORE, or, ‘beforehand.' The punctuation we adopt, involves this explanation of the passage: ‘And, even as Isaiah has predicted (so I repeat his words), Except'...
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...
HATH SAID BEFORE (προειρηκεν). Perfect active indicative of προειπον (defective verb). Stands on record in Isaiah 1:9.HAD LEFT (εγκατελιπεν). Second aorist active indicative of old verb εγκαταλειπ...
LORD OF LORD of hosts. (Isaiah 1:9)....
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...
IT IS AS ISAIAH HAD SAID BEFORE. [Isaiah 1:9 Septuagint.] The "descendants" are the same as the _"only a few"_ of Romans 9:27. Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for their sins, and no trace of them wa...
_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 9:27 Isaiah 10:22 notes that only some of Israel would be saved. Most of ISRAEL was judged. Only A REMNANT ex
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...
2 Peter 2:6; Amos 4:11; Genesis 19:24; Genesis 19:25; Isaiah 1:9;...
Said before [π ρ ο ε ι ρ η κ ε ν]. Not in a previous passage, but by way of prediction. Seed. Following the Septuagint, which thus renders the Hebrew remnant. See ver. 27. Like the remnant of corn wh...