Limitations of the problem from facts of Divine election

6. Not as though, &c. Here begins a paragraph, and with it the main subject of the rest of this chapter. St Paul has expressed his intense grief over the failure of the mass of his brethren to "inherit the promises." He now, in the true manner of the Scripture writers, vindicates dicates the veracity and majesty of the Faithful Promiser. This he does by considerations on Divine Sovereignty and Election.

the word of God The Promise to Abraham, that his seed should be blessed and a blessing.

hath taken none effect Lit. hath fallen out, hath failed.

Israel Israel Probably (1) is the descendants, (2) the forefather, Jacob. The emphasis of the Gr. is not precisely as in E. V., but rather (with a slight paraphrase) "Israel" (as intended in the Promise) "is not the total of the descendants of Israel."

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