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Romans 9:5

From the patriarchs. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The sons of such fathers were forfeiting everything for which their ancestors had been chosen! And Christ. As a human being, Jesus belonged to their race, the tribe of Judah, a descendant of David the king. May God. [The best Greek texts make this refer to the father.] Paul's purpose is to imply that the tragic apostasy of the Jews (Romans 9:2-3) is itself part of the "master-plan" of God. Compare Revelation 5: Romans 11:11-12. God is able to bring good out of evil.

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    ROMANS 9:5 sa,rka( o` w'n evpi. pa,ntwn qeo.j euvloghto.j eivj tou.j aivw/naj Since the earliest manuscripts of the New Testament are without systematic punctuation, editors and translators of the te...

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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:...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (1-5) My heart bleeds for Israel, my country, that highly-privileged people. I could fain have changed places with them, and been myself cut off from Christ, if only they might have been saved....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    The intense pain with which Paul contemplates the unbelief of his countrymen....

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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....

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    [BIBLIOGRAPHY] Qui est super omnes Deus benedictus in sæcula. Amen. _Greek: o on ep ponton theos eulogetos eis tous aionas, Amen._...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

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  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

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  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE TRUE AND THE FALSE ISRAEL. 9:1-13 The rejection of the Jews a matter of sorrow:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    WHOSE ARE THE FATHERS, AND OF WHOM, AS CONCERNING THE FLESH, CHRIST CAME, WHO IS OVER ALL, GOD BLESSED FOREVER. AMEN. The apostle has closed the first part of his letter the positive exposition of his...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

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  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    WHOSE ARE THE FATHERS, AND OF WHOM IS CHRIST AS CONCERNING THE FLESH, WHO IS OVER ALL, GOD BLESSED FOR EVER. AMEN. 'fathers' -the three pre-eminent 'fathers', were Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. (Exodus 2...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

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  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    1 Clement have sprung the priests and all the Levites who minister at the altar of God. From him also [was descended] our Lord Jesus Christ according to the flesh.[131] Irenaeus Against Heresies Boo...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Romans 9:5 whom G3739 fathers G3962 and G2532 from G1537 whom G3739 according G2596 flesh G4561 Christ G5547 who...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    PAUL IS CONCERNED FOR ISRAEL BECAUSE IN SPITE OF THEIR MANY ADVANTAGES A LARGE PROPORTION OF THEM HAVE REJECTED THE MESSIAH WHO HAS COME FROM AMONG THEM (9:1-5). We find in Paul's introductory comment...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Romans 9:5. WHOSE ARE THE FATHERS. Persons are now introduced: the whole line of patriarchs and prophets were types of Christ, who is next named, as the crowning glory and privilege of Paul's nation....

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    1. _Deep Sorrow of the Apostle for the Unbelief of the Jews, his Brethren_, _and God's Covenant People, from whom the Messiah came_. The pathos of the partially apologetic opening of this division of...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    OF WHOM (εξ ων). Fourth relative clause and here with εξ and the ablative.CHRIST (ο Χριστος). The Messiah.AS CONCERNING THE FLESH (το κατα σαρκα). Accusative of general reference, "as to the ac...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Romans 9:1. _I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself w...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 9:5 The PATRIARCHS (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob) come from Israel. Most important, Jesus the Christ is a man from the Jewish people. He is also fully GOD, and to be praised as such...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 9:1. I SPEAK IN CHRIST THE TRUTH.—Not to be rendered, “I speak the truth in Christ.” The apostle, not as a man merely, but as a member of Christ, in His name, as His apostle....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 16:36; 1 Corinthians 14:16; 1 John 5:20; 1 Kings 1:36;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Of whom [ε ξ ω ν]. From the midst of whom. But in order to guard the point that the reference is only to Christ's human origin, he adds, as concerning the flesh. Who is over all, God blessed for ever...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    To the preceding, St. Paul now adds two more prerogatives. Theirs are the fathers — The patriarchs and holy men of old, yea, the Messiah himself. Who is over all, God blessed for ever — The original w...

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