But in order that. The only possible basis of choice would seem to be on the "priority of birth," yet God ignored this to choose Jacob. It may be said that God chose between them because of what they would do (see note on Romans 8:29). Yet Paul uses this to show that God's choice was not based on either family-line or actions.
Verse Romans 9:11. _FOR_ THE CHILDREN _BEING NOT YET BORN_] As the word _children_ is not in the text, the word _nations_ would be more proper; for it is of _nations_ that the apostle speaks, as the f...
FOR THE CHILDREN BEING NOT YET BORN - It was not, therefore, by any works of theirs. It was not because they had formed a character and manifested qualities which made this distinction proper. It was...
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...
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...
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
NEITHER. Greek. _mede_. EVIL. Greek. _kakos._ App-128. THAT. in order that. Greek. _hina_. PURPOSE. Greek. _prothesis._ See Acts 11:23. STAND. abide. Greek. _meno._ Only here translated "stand". Co...
_being not yet born_, &c. Nothing could go beyond this verse in stating that the _reasons_of the Divine Choice lie wholly within the Divine Mind, and not in the works and characters of the chosen. _th...
ἽΝΑ Ἡ ΚΑΤ' ἘΚΛΟΓῊΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. The purpose of GOD (the execution of His promise to bless the Gentiles) is carried out by a principle of selection, not as a matter of favour bestowed on merit but as a choic...
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...
ΜΉΠΩ (G3380) пока не. ΓΕΝΝΗΘΈΝΤΩΝ _aor. pass. part. от_ ΓΕΝΝΆΩ (G1080) вынашивать; _pass._ рождаться. _Gen. abs._ ΠΡΑΞΆΝΤΩΝ _aor. act. part. от_ ΠΡΆΣΣΩ (G4238) делать. _Gen. abs._ ΦΑΎΛΟΣ (G5337) пл...
NEITHER HAVING DONE ANY GOOD OR EVIL— These words may possibly have been added by St. Paul, the more expressly to obviate an objection of the Jews, who might be ready to say, that Esau was rejected be...
_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...
(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) (FOR THE CHILDREN BEI...
__ 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...
THE PURPOSE] i.e. the purpose of salvation which existed in God's mind before creation: cp. Romans 8:28; Ephesians 1:9.; 2 Timothy 1:9. ACCORDING TO ELECTION] i.e. the method by which God carries out...
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...
(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...
Nor was the restriction and special selection confined to the case of Abraham alone. It also appeared when Rebecca bore sons to Isaac. It was indeed _pure_ selection. The children themselves had done...
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...
μήπω γὰρ γεννηθέντων μηδὲ πραξάντων : “the conditional negatives (μήπω, μηδὲ) represent the circumstances not as mere facts of history, but as conditions entering into God's counsel and plan. The time...
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....
(For [the children] being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the (m) purpose of God according to election might (8) stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) (m) God's decre...
Nay more, the preference given to Jacob was expressed even before the birth of the twins, before they had done any act whatever; so true is it, that it was not founded on any particular merit which Ja...
“ _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...
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...
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...
11._For when the children, etc. _He now begins to ascend higher, even to show the cause of this difference, which he teaches us is nowhere else to be found except in the election of God. He had indeed...
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...
FOR [THE CHILDREN] BEING NOT YET BORN, So says h the Chaldee paraphrast, "the prophet said unto them, was it not said of Jacob, עד דלא אתיליד, "when he was not yet born", that he should be greater t...
11 (For _the children_ being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) Ver. 11. _For the c...
_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...
(FOR THE CHILDREN BEING NOT YET BORN, NEITHER HAVING DONE ANY GOOD OR EVIL, THAT THE PURPOSE OF GOD ACCORDING TO ELECTION MIGHT STAND, NOT OF WORKS, BUT OF HIM THAT CALLETH,)...
An additional example of rejection:...
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 made a promise. It was kept. Sarah shall have a son. She had Isaac. 10 Same is true of Rebecca. She had Jacob. 11 God had a plan. Foreknowledge of God said: 1. Before they were born. 2. Befo...
FOR THE CHILDREN BEING NOT YET BORN, NEITHER HAVING DONE ANYTHING GOOD OR BAD, THAT THE PURPOSE OF GOD ACCORDING TO ELECTION MIGHT STAND, NOT OF WORKS, BUT OF HIM THAT CALLETH, 'being not yet born,...
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...
FOR THE CHILDREN BEING NOT YET BORN: q.d. As there was nothing in the birth of those twins, so neither in their works, that occasioned the difference that God made between them; for when God spake of...
for the children being not yet born, neither having done anything good [as might be supposed of Jacob] _or bad_ [as might be presumed of Esau], _that the purpose of God according to election_ [choosin...
Origen de Principiis Book II But even holy Scripture does not appear to me to be altogether silent on the nature of this secret, as when the Apostle Paul, in discussing the case of Jacob and Esau, say...
Romans 9:11 for G1063 yet G3380 born G1080 (G5685) nor G3366 done G4238 (G5660) any G5100 good...
‘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...
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 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...
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...
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 9:11. The parentheses are unnecessary, since we place a dash at the end of Romans 9:10 FOR WITHOUT THEIR HAVING AS YET BEEN BORN, OR DONE ANYTHING GOOD OR ILL. This rendering, though varying f...
THE CHILDREN BEING NOT YET BORN (μηπω γεννηθεντων). Genitive absolute with first aorist passive participle of γενναω, to beget, to be born, though no word for children nor even the pronoun αυτων (t...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
1 Peter 5:10; 1 Thessalonians 1:4; 1 Thessalonians 2:12; 2 Peter 1:10;...
Evil [φ α υ λ ο ν]. See on John 3:20; James 3:16. Purpose according to election [η κ α τ ε κ λ ο γ η ν π ρ ο θ ε σ ι ς] For proqesiv purpose, see on the kindred verb proeqeto, ch. Romans 3:25, and com...
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...