Romans 9:1-29

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 fact which is about to occupy him (Romans 9:1-5); then he shows how the liberty of God is set in its full light by the theocratical antecedents (Romans 9:6-13), and by the most unequivocal scriptural declarations (Romans 9:14-24); and finally, he calls to mind that the use which God is now making of this liberty in relation to the Jews, was clearly foretold (Romans 9:25-29). This last idea forms the transition to the following passage, which refers to the legitimacy of the application which God has made to the Jews of His sovereign right (chap. 10). Chap. 10 ought strictly to begin at Romans 9:30 of chap. 9.