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Verse 20. _NAY BUT, O MAN, WHO ART THOU_] As if he had said: Weak,
ignorant man, darest thou retort on the infinitely good and righteous
GOD? Reflect on _thyself_; and tell me, after thou hast abused...
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NAY BUT, O MAN ... - To this objection the apostle replies in two
ways; first, by asserting the sovereignty of God, and affirming that
he had a right to do it Romans 9:20; and secondly, by showing tha...
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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:...
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THE DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY IN JUDGMENT.
Romans 9:19 f. The hard saying just enunciated provokes the question,
Why does He blame, if the hardening is His doing and none may resist
His will? Paul forgoes th...
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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
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But, then, you may ask, "If this is so how can God go on blaming men
if they do not take his way? Who can withstand God's purpose?" Fellow!
Who are you to be arguing with God? Surely the thing that is...
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REPLIEST AGAINST. Greek. _antapokrinomai._ Only here and Luke 14:6.
Compare App-104 and App-122 :3.
SHALL. Question preceded by _me_, as Romans 9:14.
THING FORMED. Greek. _plasma._ Only here.
FORMED...
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(C) The Reply: Creative Sovereignty
20. _Nay but_ Same word as Romans 10:18, and Luke 11:28; (E. V., "Yea,
rather.") Q. d., "_Rather than_the position of a questioner, take that
of a creature."
_man...
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20. Ὦ ἌΝΘΡΩΠΕ. Cf. Romans 2:1; ' href='520 2:3'>Rom 2:3; cf.
James 2:20 only (_Romans 9 :_1 Timothy 6:11), thou that art mere man.
For
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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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14–33. This choice of GOD is not unjust, because it flows from His
Mercy, not from man’s disposition or efforts. (17) Pharaoh himself
was raised up to give an instance of GOD’S power and to make wide...
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ΜΕΝΟΎΝΓΕ (G3304) напротив (Thrall, 34f).
ΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΕΊΜΊ (G1510) быть,
ΆΝΤΑΠΟΚΡΙΝΌΜΕΝΟΣ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_
ΆΝΤΑΠΟΚΡΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G470) возражать,
отвечать, спорить. Предложное
соч...
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DISCOURSE: 1886
GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY NOT TO BE ARRAIGNED BY MEN
Romans 9:19. Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault?
For who hath resisted his will? Nay but, O man, who art thou that
repl...
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NAY BUT, O MAN, &C.— St. Paul shews here, that the nations of the
world, who are by a better right in the hands and disposal of God,
than the _clay_ in the power of the_potter,_ may, without calling h...
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_TEXT_
Romans 9:19-29. Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he still find
fault? For who withstandeth his will? Romans 9:20 Nay but, O man, who
art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing form...
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Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the
thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
NAY BUT, [ menounge (G3304). This compound adverb (mostly of la...
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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...
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SHALL THE THING] cp. Isaiah 29:16; Isaiah 45:9....
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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...
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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...
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NAY BUT, O MAN. — The answer is not so much a solution of the
intellectual difficulty, as an appeal to the religious sense to
prevent it from being raised. That His dealings should be questioned
at al...
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(19-21) These verses contain the third part of the vindication, which
is based upon a possible extension of the objection. Not only might it
seem as if this absolute choice and rejection was unjust in...
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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...
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In the second part of his theodicy Paul meets the objection that this
sovereign freedom of God is essentially unjust....
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ὦ ἄνθρωπε is not used contemptuously, but it is set
intentionally over against τῷ θεῷ : the objector is reminded
emphatically of what he is, and of the person to whom he is speaking.
It is not for a _...
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THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD'S CHOICES
Romans 9:14
God desires to do His best for every man. But, as in the case of Esau,
who wantonly sold his birthright, and of Pharaoh, who turned all God's
revelation...
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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....
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(17) Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? (18)
Shall the thing (u) formed say to him that formed [it], Why hast thou
made me thus?
(17) The apostle does not answer that it is not Go...
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[BIBLIOGRAPHY]
O homo, tu quis es? &c. The apostle, says St. John Chrysostom, (p.
141.) does not say, that this cannot be answered, but that such
questions are impertinent, because we cannot understa...
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Most commentators do not hold that in the following answer Paul comes
seriously to discuss the objection. _Abrumpit quaestionem_, says
Melanchthon. Holsten observes that Paul raises the question, not...
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“ _Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who
can resist His will? Much rather_, _O man, who art thou that repliest
against God? Shall the vessel of clay say to him that formed it...
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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...
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Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath
resisted his will? (20) Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest
against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, W...
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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...
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20._But, O man! who art thou? etc. _(303) As it is a participle in
Greek, we may read what follows in the present tense, _who disputest,
_or contendest, or strivest in opposition to God; for it is exp...
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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...
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NAY, BUT O MAN, WHO ART THOU THAT REPLIEST AGAINST GOD?.... Or
"answerest again to God": some have been so weak and wicked as to
suggest, that the apostle met with an objection he could not answer,
or...
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Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the
thing formed say to him that formed _it_, Why hast thou made me thus?
Ver. 20. _That repliest against God_] Gr.
Ανταποκρινομενος, cha...
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_Nay but, O man_ Little, impotent, ignorant man; _Who art thou_ In all
thy boasted wisdom and penetration; _that repliest against God?_ That
accusest God of injustice, for himself fixing the terms on...
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REPLIEST AGAINST GOD; disputest against him, by finding fault with the
principles upon which he governs the world....
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Silencing the reasonable objector:...
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NAY BUT, O MAN, WHO ART THOU THAT REPLIES AGAINST GOD? SHALL THE THING
FORMED SAY TO HIM THAT FORMED IT, WHY HAST THOU MADE ME THUS?...
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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...
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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...
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REPLIEST AGAINST GOD?:
Or, answereth again, or disputest with God?...
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Romans 9:20 Nay but,. man, who art thou that repliest against God?
Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make
me thus?
'Nay but,. man' -'Nay, but who are you,. mere man...
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14-24 Whatever God does, must be just. Wherein the holy, happy people
of God differ from others, God's grace alone makes them differ. In
this preventing, effectual, distinguishing grace, he acts as a...
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Here follows the answer to this cavil; which is either personal to the
caviller, in this and the next verse, or real to the cavil, in the two
following verses. NAY BUT, O MAN, WHO ART THOU THAT REPLIE...
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Nay but [One word in Greek,: viz., the particle menounge. "This
particle is," says Hodge, "often used in replies, and is partly
concessive and partly corrective, as in Luke 11:28; where it is
rendered...
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Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh
In the same way the potter, too, has it in his power, by tempering the
blast of his fire, to modify his clayey material into a stiffer one,
and to mould on...
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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...
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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...
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GOD HAS THE SOVEREIGN RIGHT TO DO WHAT HE CHOOSES, AND TO SAVE WHOM HE
WILL (9:19-29).
Paul does not hide from the consequences of what he has been saying.
He rather defends it by appealing to God's a...
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‘No but, O man, who are you who replies against God? Will the thing
formed say to him who formed it, “Why did you make me thus?” '
Paul's response to the questions is illuminating, both in what he doe...
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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...
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Romans 9:20. NAY BUT. An unusual word, meaning, ‘Yes indeed;' here
used, either with a slight tone of irony, or, more probably, of
indignant rebuke. ‘I do not examine the intrinsic verity of what you...
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NAY, BUT, O MAN, WHO ART THOU?
(Ο ανθρωπε, μεν ουν γε συ τις ει?). "O man, but
surely thou who art thou?" Unusual and emphatic order of the words,
prolepsis of συ (thou) before τις (who) and μεν ουν...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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TO TALK BACK TO GOD? He has the right to decree the terms of his own
mercy....
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ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 9:20 Paul does not resolve the problem
presented in v. Romans 9:19 on the basis of human free will. Rather,
he insists that human beings should not rebelliously question God’s
wa...
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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...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Romans 9:17.—According to Sir G. Wilkinson, the Pharaoh here meant
was Thothmes III., not drowned, but overthrown in the Red Sea. Reigned
twenty-five years after that event. So Jewish...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 1:20; 1 Corinthians 7:16; 1 Timothy 6:5; Isaiah 29:16;...
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O man. Man as man, not Jew.
That repliest [ο α ν τ α π ο κ ρ ι ν ο μ ε ν ο ς].
Only here and Luke 14:6. Lit., to contradict in reply : to answer by
contradicting. Thus, in the case of the dropsical ma...
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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...
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Nay, but who art thou, O man — Little, impotent, ignorant man. That
repliest against God — That accusest God of injustice, for himself
fixing the terms on which he will show mercy? Shall the thing for...