As it is written — Foretold by their own prophet. Behold, I lay in Sion — I exhibit in my church, what, though it is in truth the only sure foundation of happiness, yet will be in fact a stumblingstone and rock of offence — An occasion of ruin to many, through their obstinate unbelief. Isaiah 8:14; Isaiah 28:16
ROMANS 9:33 kai, (2) {A} Once again the Textus Receptus, following K P Y 33 88 326 614 1739 _Byz Lect_ itdc, 61 vg syrh arm, makes an addition in order to heighten the effectiveness of the quotation;...
Verse Romans 9:33. _AS IT IS WRITTEN, BEHOLD, I LAY IN SION_] Christ, the Messiah, is become a stone of stumbling to them: and thus what is written in the prophecy of Isaiah is verified in their case...
AS IT IS WRITTEN - see Isaiah 8:14; Isaiah 28:16. The quotation here is made up of both these passages, and contains the substance of both; compare also Psa 118:22; 1 Peter 2:6
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:...
ROMANS 9:30 TO ROMANS 10:4. Paul has discussed the Jewish situation as from God's side; he proceeds to point out, from man's side, THE CAUSE OF ISRAEL'S STUMBLING. This chs. 3- 5 have prepared us to u...
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
What shall we then say? The Gentiles who were not looking for a right relationship with God received such a relationship, but it was a relationship which was the result of faith, while Israel which wa...
BEHOLD. App-133. SION. App-68. OFFENCE. See 1 Corinthians 1:23. WHOSOEVER. The texts read "he who". BELIEVETH. App-150. ASHAMED. put to shame. See Romans 5:6. Quoted from...
_Behold_, &c. The quotation is a combination of Isaiah 8:14; Isaiah 28:16, and is closely after the Heb., but widely differs from the LXX. of Romans 8:14. Both passages (q. v.) refer to the great Prom...
33. Isaiah 28:16, LXX[199] with λιθ. π. κ. π. ς. substituted for λίθον πολυτελῆ κ.τ.λ. and other slighter variations; cf. Romans 10:11; 1 Peter 2:6 (see Hort). [199] LXX. the Septuagint Version of th...
What conclusion is to be drawn? The facts are plain: Gentiles have attained a state of righteousness, though they were not seeking it: Jews, who sought it, have not attained. And the reason too is pla...
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...
ΓΈΓΡΑΠΤΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΓΡΆΦΩ (G1125) писать (_см._ Romans 9:13). ΙΔΟΎ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть, ΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G5087) _praes. ind. act._ помещать, ΣΚΆΝΔΑΛΟΝ (G4348) камень
DISCOURSE: 1887 CHRIST REJECTED BY THE JEWS, AND BELIEVED ON BY THE GENTILES Romans 9:30. What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousn...
A STUMBLINGSTONE— What the unbelieving Jews stumbled at, St. Peter informs us, 1 Epist. Romans 2:8. _They stumbled at the word:_ they were disgusted at the Gospel: the word which Christ and his Apostl...
_TEXT_ Romans 9:30-33. What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith: Romans 9:31 but Israel, fol...
As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. AS IT IS WRITTEN ( ; ), BEHOLD, I LAY IN SION A STUMBLINGSTONE AND...
__ 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...
9:33 written, (h-5) See Isaiah 8:14 and 28.16....
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...
A combination of two passages. In Isaiah 28:16 the prophet spoke of a foundation stone which God was laying, and which would give a sense of security to those who trusted His promise. In Isaiah 8:14 t...
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...
(30-33) The Apostle has finished with his vindication of the rejection of Israel, and finished also with the course of argument which seemed to bear a strong character of determinism. He now takes up...
BEHOLD, I LAY IN SION. — A free combination of Isaiah 28:16 — “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone;... he that believeth shall not make haste” — and Isaiah 8:14, “And He shall be... for a s...
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...
Yet paradoxical as this may seem, it agrees with the words of Scripture. The quotation is a mixture of Isaiah 28:16; Isaiah 8:14 : and it is interesting to remark that the same passages are quoted in...
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....
Why then have not the Jews been justified? _because they stumbled at the stumbling-stone: that is, the doctrine of Christ crucified has been a scandal to the Jews, at which being offended, they would...
“ _Wherefore? Because [seeking] not by faith, but as it were by works_, _they stumbled at the stumbling-stone; as it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone and rock of offence: and he who...
Paul combines in this quotation Isa. 27:16 and Isaiah 8:14, and that in such a way that he borrows the first and last words of his quotation from the former of these passages, and those of the middle...
REFLECTIONS How sure, how certain, and how unalterably fixed, are the ways and purposes of Jehovah. From eternity the whole is ordered in all things, and sure; and through the whole time-state of the...
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...
33._And every one who believes in him shall not be ashamed. _He subjoins this testimony from another part for the consolation of the godly; as though he had said, “Because Christ is called the stone o...
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 IT IS WRITTEN,.... In Isaiah 8:14; for the beginning and end of this citation are out of the latter, and the middle of it out of the former. This is an instance of מדלג, "skipping", from place to p...
As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. Ver. 33.] _See Trapp on "_ 1Pe 2:6 _"_ Shall not be ashamed] That...
_What shall we say then_ What is to be concluded from all that has been said, but this, _that the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness_ Who a while ago had no knowledge of, no care or though...
AS IT IS WRITTEN; ISAIAH 8:14; Isaiah 28:16. These passages pointed out the manner in which they would treat Christ; that the effect of believing on him would be salvation, and of rejecting him would...
AS IT IS WRITTEN, BEHOLD, I LAY IN SION A STUMBLING-STONE AND ROCK OF OFFENSE; AND WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH ON HIM SHALL NOT BE ASHAMED. The apostle had shown that God was building His Church by calling Hi...
The conclusion:...
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...
Gentiles - 1. Did not always follow God's laws 2. Have been offered righteousness 3. Obtained righteousness through faith 31 Israel - 1. Followed God's laws 2. Has not obtained righteousness 32...
ASHAMED: or confounded...
EVEN AS IT IS WRITTEN, BEHOLD,. LAY IN ZION. STONE OF STUMBLING AND. ROCK OF OFFENCE: AND HE THAT BELIEVETH ON HIM SHALL NOT BE PUT TO SHAME. 'as it is written'. Isaiah 2:16 This failure to trust Go...
30-33 The Gentiles knew not their guilt and misery, therefore were not careful to procure a remedy. Yet they attained to righteousness by faith. Not by becoming proselytes to the Jewish religion, and...
AS IT IS WRITTEN; viz. in ISAIAH 8:14, and ISAIAH 28:16; to which prophecy also the apostle Peter refers, in 1 PETER 2:6. A STUMBLING STONE; Jesus Christ is properly a corner-stone, elect and precious...
even as it is written [The passage about to be quoted is a compound of the Hebrew at Isaiah 8:14 and the LXX. at Isaiah 28:16. The first reads thus, "But he shall be... for a stone of stumbling and fo...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV Was it because Christ was both a rock and a stone? For we read of His being placed "for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence."[445]...
Romans 9:33 As G2531 written G1125 (G5769) Behold G2400 (G5628) lay G5087 (G5719) in G1722 Zion...
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...
ISRAEL HAS STUMBLED AND HURT ITSELF BECAUSE IT HAS NOT BELIEVED IN ITS MESSIAH AND SUBMITTED TO THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD OBTAINABLE THROUGH FAITH IN HIM (9:30-33). Paul emphasises that the believing G...
‘For what reason? Because (they sought) not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling, even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of...
Romans 9:33. AS IT IS WRITTEN, etc. Two passages from Isaiah are here combined. STONE OF STUMBLING, etc. In Isaiah 8:14, God Himself is represented as being ‘for a stone of stumbling and for a rock...
1. _The Jews excluded through their Unbelief._ The Gentiles were saved, the Jews failed of salvation (Romans 9:30-31), but the latter fact was due to their seeking righteousness, not by faith, but as...
Paul repeats the phrase just used in the whole quotation from Isaiah 8:14 with the same idea in "a rock of offence" (πετραν σκανδαλου, "a rock of snare," a rock which the Jews made a cause of stumblin...
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...
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...
THAT THE SCRIPTURE SPEAKS OF. Paul blends and paraphrases Isaiah 28:16 and _Isa. 18:14_ as proof that this very thing would happen. BUT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM. See Romans 5:1. One who has _peace_ wil...
_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-...
_The Gentiles which followed not after righteousness have attained to righteousness … but Israel which followed after the law of righteousness hath not attained._ THE GOSPEL FOR THE GENTILES I. They...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 9:33 STUMBLING. See Isaiah 28:16. Those who trust in Christ will not experience SHAME on the day of judgment....
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 9:31.—νόμ. δικ., and not δικ. νομοῦ, because Israel and not the Gentiles had in the economy of mercy a law which taught what was right; law not making righteous, but declaring...
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 John 2:28; 1 Peter 2:6; 1 Peter 2:7; 1 Peter 2:8; 2 Timothy 1:12;...
Offense [σ κ α ν δ α λ ο υ]. See on Matthew 5:29; Matthew 16:9; Matthew 16:3. Shall not be ashamed [ο υ κ α τ α ι σ χ υ ν θ η σ ε τ α ι]. The Hebrew in Is
Observe here, 1. What use and office our Lord Jesus Christ is of to his church: he is. stone,. corner-stone, the chief corner-stone;. corner-stone for strength, the chief corner-stone for ornament and...