Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV
Our God, one and the same, is also their God, who knows hidden things, who knoweth all things before they can come to pass; and for this reason has He said, "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated."[320]
AS IT IS WRITTEN - Malachi 1:2. That is, the distribution of favors is on the principle advanced by the prophet, and is in accordance with the declaration that God had in fact loved the one and hated...
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...
HAVE. Omit. LOVED. Greek. _agapao._ App-135. See Deuteronomy 21:15....
_As it is written_ In Malachi 1:2-3. Nearly verbatim from LXX. The prophet is there appealing, in God's name, to the people to remember His distinguishing and unmerited choice of Jacob over Esau to in...
13. Malachi 1:2, where the words describe the several fates of Israel and Edom, the disappearance of the latter and the desolation of their land being contrasted with the wideness of GOD’S love for Is...
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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_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...
As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. AS IT IS WRITTEN (MALACHI 1:2 ), JACOB HAVE I LOVED, BUT ESAU HAVE I HATED. It might be thought that there was a natural reason for pref...
__ 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...
9:13 written, (k-5) See Malachi 1:2 ....
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...
LOVED.. HATED] cp. Malachi 1:2. which refers to the nations of Israel and Edom, and expresses the historical fact that Israel had privileges which were denied to Edom. 'Hated' implies decided rejectio...
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...
(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...
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....
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 not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil_, _that the purpose of God accordi...
A second quotation, meant to confirm the first; it is taken from Malachi 1:2-3. The conjunction _as_ may be understood in two ways: either in the sense that God's love to Jacob and His hatred to Esau...
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...
_THE STORY OF JACOB_ ‘Jacob have I loved.’ Romans 9:13 It has been said as a paradox that ‘there is nothing so disappointing as failure, except success.’ The study of the character of Jacob illustra...
_NO UNRIGHTEOUSNESS WITH GOD_ ‘As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.’ Romans 9:13 Jacob had great sins,...
13._As it is written, Jacob I loved, etc. _He confirms, by a still stronger testimony, how much the heavenly answer, given to Rebecca, availed to his present purpose, that is, that the spiritual condi...
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 Malachi 1:2; JACOB HAVE I LOVED, BUT ESAU HAVE I HATED. These words are explanative of the former; they are of like import, and the one interpret the other; and show, that th...
As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. Ver. 13. _Esau have I hated_] _i.e._ I have not loved him, but passed him by; and this preterition is properly opposed to election. _ As...
_For this is the word of promise_ To show that Isaac was a son of promise, (and so a meet type of those that should be begotten of God by the promise of the gospel through faith,) he cites the words o...
AS IT IS WRITTEN; MALACHI 1:2-3. The meaning of these words is, I chose Jacob and his seed to be heirs of the promises made to Abraham, and rejected Esau and his seed....
An additional example of rejection:...
AS IT IS WRITTEN, JACOB HAVE I LOVED, BUT ESAU HAVE I HATED. To give additional corroboration to his statements! Paul introduces another example from the history of the patriarchs: But not only this....
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 loved Jacob. God "hated" Esau. NOTE: 1. Nothing to de with their eternal salvation. 2. Not hate in sense of "despise, bad feelings" 3. Vine, p. 538, "Relative preference for one thing over an...
EVEN AS IT IS WRITTEN, JACOB. LOVED, BUT ESAU. HATED. (Malachi 1:2) POINT TO NOTE: We are making. grave mistake if we take this section of Scripture as teaching that God predestined Esau to be. God-...
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...
The foregoing oracle is expounded by another, taken out of ZECHARIAH 1:2,3; see the annotations there. Because the foregoing passage of Esau's serving Jacob doth not seem so full and clear, to betoken...
Even as it is written [Malachi 1:2-3], _Jacob loved, but Esau hated_. [Expositors of Calvinistic bias insist upon the full, literal meaning of "hatred" in this passage; but Hodge, whose leaning that w...
Romans 9:13 As G2531 written G1125 (G5769) Jacob G2384 loved G25 (G5656) but G1161 Esau G2269 hated...
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...
‘And not only so; but Rebecca also having conceived by one, even by our father Isaac. For the children being not yet born, nor having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to el...
Romans 9:13. AS IT IS WRITTEN (Malachi 1:2-3), JACOB I l OVED, BUT ESAU I HATED. In the original prophecy the statement that Esau was hated, is proved by the added words: ‘and laid his mountains and h...
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...
Paul quotes Malachi 1:2.BUT ESAU I HATED (τον δε Εσαυ εμισησα). This language sounds a bit harsh to us. It is possible that the word μισεω did not always carry the full force of what we mean by "hate...
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...
AS THE SCRIPTURE SAYS. [Malachi 1:2 Septuagint.] _The Expositor's Greek Testament_ says: "Yet it would not be right to say that Paul is here considering merely the parts assigned by God to nations in...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 9:11 God did not choose Jacob on the basis of anything in Jacob or Esau’s life. He did so to fulfill his PURPOSE OF ELECTION. For the OT background to “election,” see...
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 9:13. AS IT IS WRITTEN, JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED—There is no necessity to soften the “hated” into “loved less”; the words in Malachi proceed on the fullest meaning of ἐ...
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...
Deuteronomy 21:15; Genesis 29:31; Genesis 29:33; John 12:25; Luke 14
Jacob - Esau. See Genesis 25:23. Representing their respective nations, as often in the Old Testament. Numbers 23:7; Numbers 23:10; Numbers 23:23;...
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...
As it is written — With which word in Genesis, spoken so long before, that of Malachi agrees. I have loved Jacob — With a peculiar love; that is, the Israelites, the posterity of Jacob. And I have, co...
How can God hate Esau when He is a God of love? (See comments on Malachi 1:3)...