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Verse 18. _THEREFORE HATH HE MERCY ON WHOM HE WILL_] This is the
apostle's conclusion from the facts already laid down: that God,
according to his own will and wisdom, in perfect righteousness,
besto...
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THEREFORE HATH HE MERCY ... - This is a conclusion stated by the
apostle as the result of all the argument.
WHOM HE WILL HE HARDENETH - This is not stated in what the Scripture
said to Pharaoh, but is...
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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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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...
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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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What shall we then say? Are you going to say that there is injustice
with God? God forbid! For, he says to Moses: "I will have mercy on
whomsoever I will have mercy and I will have pity on whomsoever...
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HARDENETH. See Acts 19:9. Compare Exodus 4:21....
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_whom he will_ The emphasis is of course on these words, in each
clause: to us, the _only_account of the differences of His action is
His Will. The following verses prove beyond fair question that St...
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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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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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ΣΚΛΗΡΎΝΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΣΚΛΗΡΎΝΩ (G4645)
осложнять....
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THEREFORE HATH HE MERCY, &C.— "Therefore, that his name and power
may be made known, and taken notice of in all the earth, he is kind
and bountiful to one nation, and suffers another to go on obstinat...
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_TEXT_
Romans 9:14-18. What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with
God? God forbid. Romans 9:15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy
on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on w...
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Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will
he hardeneth.
THEREFORE HATH HE (or, 'So then He hath') - the result is that He
hath
MERCY ON WHOM HE WILL [HAVE MERCY] - rat...
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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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HARDENETH] cp. Exodus 4:21. God is said to harden, because He has made
man so that, by the constitution of his nature, hardening follows
persistent disobedience.
19-29. It is now objected that if God'...
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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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Summary conclusion from the above.
HE HARDENETH. — The doctrine of the divine sovereignty is here
expressed in its most trenchant and logical form. In Exodus 8:32;
Exodus 9:34; Exodus 13:15, &c., the...
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(14-18) These verses contain the second part of the vindication. This
power of choosing one and refusing another has always been reserved to
Himself by God; as is seen by the examples of Moses and Pha...
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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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From the two instances just quoted Paul draws the comprehensive
conclusion: So then on whom He will He has mercy, and whom He will He
hardens. The whole emphasis is on θέλει. The two modes in which
Go...
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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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(15) Therefore hath he mercy on whom he (t) will [have mercy], and
whom he will he hardeneth.
(15) A conclusion of the full answer to the first objection: therefore
seeing that God does not save those...
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And whom he will, he hardeneth. [3] That is, permits to be hardened by
their own malice, as it is divers times said in Exodus, that Pharao
hardened his heart. God, says St. Augustine, is said to harde...
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From this particular example Paul deduces, as in Romans 9:16, the
general principle, while reproducing by way of antithesis the maxim of
Romans 9:16, so as to combine the two aspects in which he wishe...
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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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“ _For the Scripture saith unto Pharoah, Even for this same purpose
have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee, and that my
name might be declared throughout all the earth. Therefore ha...
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What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
(15) For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have
mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassio...
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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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18._To whom he wills then he showeth mercy, etc. _Here follows the
conclusion of both parts; which can by no means be understood as being
the language of any other but of the Apostle; for he immediate...
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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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THEREFORE HATH HE MERCY ON WHOM HE WILL,.... These are the express
words of the former testimony: it follows,
AND WHOM HE WILL HE HARDENETH; which is the just and natural
consequence of what is conta...
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Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will _have mercy_, and whom he will
he hardeneth.
Ver. 18. _Therefore_] God being a free agent, cannot be unjust; he is
bound to none.
_ Whom he will, he hardeneth...
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_For_ Or, _moreover_, rather, as it seems γαρ ought to be
translated, (the passage here quoted being no proof of what
immediately goes before,) God has an indisputable right to reject
those who will n...
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WHOM HE WILL HE HARDENETH; as he did Pharaoh, by continuing him on
earth notwithstanding his sins, and suffering him, under judgments and
mercies, to act out his wickedness, and thus grow harder and m...
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THEREFORE HATH HE MERCY ON WHOM HE WILL HAVE MERCY, AND WHOM HE WILL
HE HARDENETH.
What inference shall we draw from the argument as presented in the
first part of the chapter? The apostle makes ready...
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THE DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY AND ITS RESULT.
A serious objection answered:...
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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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SO THEN HE HATH MERCY ON WHOM HE WILL, AND WHOM HE WILL BE HARDENETH.
God chose the message of salvation (it's conditions and contents).
Mercy will be extended to those that exercise obedient faith i...
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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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This verse is a short repetition of the foregoing argument. THEREFORE
HATH HE MERCY ON WHOM HE WILL HAVE MERCY: see ROMANS 9:15, and the
notes there. AND WHOM HE WILL HE HARDENETH; i.e. in a judicial...
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So then [see Romans 9:16] _he hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he
will he hardeneth._ [This does not mean that God arbitrarily chooses
the worst people upon whom to shower his mercies, and chooses...
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Origen de Principiis Book III
Thou wilt say then unto me, Why cloth He yet find fault? For who shall
resist His will? O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall
the thing formed say to him...
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Romans 9:18 Therefore G686 G3767 mercy G1653 (G5719) whom G3739 wills
G2309 (G5719) and G1161 whom...
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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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‘So then he has mercy on whom he will, and whom he will be hardens.'
Paul assumes that his readers will connect Pharaoh's being raised up
to glorify God with his hardening of heart, a condition expres...
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THE SCRIPTURE DEMONSTRATES THAT GOD IS SOVEREIGN OVER ALL THINGS AND
HAS MERCY ON WHOM HE WILLS (9:14-18).
Paul recognises that what he has just demonstrated about God's
elective mercy might raise the...
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Romans 9:18. SO THEN (as in Romans 9:16; the E. V. varies
unnecessarily), summing up the whole matter, after considering both
sides.
ON WHOM HE WILL HE HATH MERCY. We thus restore the correspondence...
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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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HE HARDENETH
(σκληρυνε). Pharaoh hardened his own heart also (Exodus 8:15;
Exodus 8:32; Exodus 9:34), but God gives men up also (Romans 1:24;...
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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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GOD HAS MERCY ON WHOM HE WISHES. God's mercy and wrath are not
influenced by human claims. The "making stubborn" of Pharaoh is
explained by 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12_. Godet_ says that Paul is not
writi...
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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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2 Thessalonians 2:10; Acts 28:26; Deuteronomy 2:30; Ephesians 1:6;...
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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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So then — That is, accordingly he does show mercy on his own terms,
namely, on them that believe. And whom he willeth — Namely, them
that believe not. He hardeneth — Leaves to the hardness of their
he...
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As if he had said, "From these scripture instances we may gather and
conclude, that God may without the least injustice magnify his mercy,
in sparing and pardoning some sinners, and render his justice...