He will finish the work; the work of righteously destroying those who will not have him reign over them.
Cut it short; accomplish it in a speedy and summary way.
A short work; a work done with promptness and speed. The apostle quotes here, as often, from the Greek version of the Seventy.
ROMANS 9:28 sunte,mnwn {A} The Textus Receptus, following ac D G K P Y 33 88 326 614 1241 _Byz Lect_ Old Latin vg syrh goth arm _al_, has filled out the quotation from the Septuagint...
Verse 28. _FOR HE WILL FINISH THE WORK, AND CUT IT SHORT_, c.] These appear to be forensic terms, and refer to the _conclusion_ of a _judicial proceeding_ the Lord has _tried_ and _found them guilty_,...
ESAIAS - The Greek way of writing the word “Isaiah.” CRIETH - Isaiah 10:22. Exclaims, or speaks aloud or openly: compare John 1:15. Isaiah brings forth the doctrine fully, and without any concealment...
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:...
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...
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
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...
FINISH. close. Greek. _sunteleo._ See Acts 21:27. WORK. account. Greek. _logos._ App-121. CUT... SHORT. Greek. _suntemno._ Only here and next clause. RIGHTEOUSNESS. App-191. THE LORD. App-98. UPON...
_for he will finish_, &c. These words agree closely with the letter of the LXX., but not with that of the Heb. They convey the point of the Heb., however, quite enough for the purpose of the quotation...
ΛΌΓΟΝ ΓᾺΡ ΣΥΝΤΕΛΩ͂Ν Κ.Τ.Λ. Cf. Isaiah 28:22 = LXX[195] πράγματα: λόγον w. ποιήσει, ‘shall effect a reckoning upon earth, completely and briefly.’ [195] LXX. the Septuagint Version of the Old Testamen...
The four quotations are cited to show that the prophets contemplated that the choice of the chosen people would be maintained only in a remnant, and that there would be a choice of others also. There...
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...
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...
ΣΥΝΤΕΛΏΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΣΥΝΤΕΛΈΩ (G4931) доводить до конца, завершать, заканчивать. Предложное сочетание является перфективирующим (МН, 325). ΠΟΊΉΣΕΙ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ (G4160) делать,...
A REMNANT SHALL BE SAVED— That is, _Only a remnant._ So ch. Romans 14:2. _Eats_ only _herbs,_ John 18:8. _If ye seek me,_ (that is, only me,) _let these go their way._ Mr. Locke would translate the ne...
_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...
For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. FOR HE WILL FINISH THE WORK, AND CUT IT SHORT, [ logon (G3056) gar (G1063) su...
__ God's Sovereignty-National 25 A comparison of Hos_2:23 with Hos_1:9-11 shows that this is not an _ interpretation _ but an _ illustration_. God, in His sovereign mercy, will reverse the sentence...
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...
RV 'for the Lord will execute his word' (i.e. sentence) 'upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short,' i.e. making it conclusive and brief. 30-33. The Jews have been rejected because they sought...
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...
(22-29) These verses supply the concluding section of the vindication. All this scheme of God’s dealings, apparently so severe, is really most merciful. To those who really deserved His wrath, He show...
FOR HE WILL FINISH. — Literally, according to the correct reading, _For a sentence, accomplishing and abridging it, will the Lord execute upon the earth;_ in other words, “A short and summary sentence...
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...
Paul's argument, to speak plainly, has got into an _impasse_. He is not able to carry it through, and to maintain the sovereign freedom of God as the whole and sole explanation of human destiny, wheth...
STUMBLING OVER THE CORNERSTONE Romans 9:25 There has been a notable transference of privilege from the Jew to the Gentile believer. This is not due to fickleness on God's part, but to a fatal defect...
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 he will finish the work, and cut [it] (b) short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. (b) God chooses and goes about to reduce the unkind and unthankful people...
And, first, Romans 9:25-26: the proclamation by the prophets of the calling of the Gentiles; then Romans 9:27-29: that of the rejection of the mass of the Jewish people....
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...
“ _But Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant_ [_only_] _shall be saved: for the Lord will make a short and summary reckoning o...
VV. 28 explains this idea of a _saved remnant._ This time, indeed, judgment will be carried out neither by halves nor over a long period. It will be, says Isaiah, a sudden and summary execution which...
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...
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...
28._For I will finish and shorten the matter, etc. _(312) Omitting various interpretations, I will state what appears to me to be the real meaning: The Lord will so cut short, and cut off his people,...
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 HE WILL FINISH THE WORK,.... This passage has some difficulty in it: some, instead of "work", read "account", and suppose it is an allusion to the balancing of accounts, when the remainder is cut...
For he will finish the work, and cut _it_ short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. Ver. 28. _A short work_] When once he sets to work to cut off hypocrites....
_Esaias also_ And, as the calling of the Gentiles, so the rejection of the Jews also is foretold by the prophets, particularly by Isaiah _who crieth_ Κραζει, _calleth aloud_ Speaks with great earnestn...
FOR HE WILL FINISH THE WORK, AND CUT IT SHORT IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, BECAUSE A SHORT WORK WILL THE LORD MAKE UPON THE EARTH....
God's power exerted in the interest of men:...
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...
Quote from Hosea 2:23. God can adopt anyone He wants to adopt. Those which are not His people, can be made the people of God. God can love whom He wants to love. 26 The prophecy will be fulfilled (H...
THE WORK: Or, the account...
FOR THE LORD WILL EXECUTE HIS WORD UPON THE EARTH, FINISHING IT AND CUTTING IT SHORT. 'finishing it and cutting it short'. (Isaiah 2:22), 'thoroughly and quickly' (NASV); Bringing that to an issue, w...
25-29 The rejecting of the Jews, and the taking in the Gentiles, were foretold in the Old Testament. It tends very much to the clearing of a truth, to observe how the Scripture is fulfilled in it. It...
OLBGrk; This verse is also found in that forecited place, ISAIAH 10:22,23. The apostle in this, and in the other citations, follows the Seventy, which was a received translation, and had been in reque...
for the Lord will execute his word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short. [Isaiah 10:22-23. This prophecy, like that of Hosea, refers to the return of the ten tribes in the latter days, an...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV to a compendious formula, because (as it was predicted in another passage) the Lord-that is, Christ" was to make (or utter) a concise word on earth."[610]...
Romans 9:28 For G1063 finish G4931 (G5723) work G3056 and G2532 short G4932 (G5723) in G1722 righteousness...
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...
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...
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...
‘And Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved, for the Lord will execute his word on the earth, finishing...
Romans 9:28. This verse presents unusual difficulties, both as to the Greek text, the English translation, and the principle of citation which led the Apostle to use it The weight of authority support...
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...
FINISHING IT AND CUTTING IT SHORT (συντελων κα συντεμνων). Present active participles and note συν- with each (perfective use of the preposition, finishing completely as in Luke 4:13, cutting off c...
LORD Adonai Jehovah. (Isaiah 10:23)....
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...
FOR THE LORD. The meaning is: "God fulfills his promise, but also limits it [to those who have faith]." This is why only part of Israel will be saved. [_Compare note on_ Romans 11:26.]...
_As He saith also in Osee, I will call them My people, which were not My people._ THE CALLING OF THE GENTILES I. Their former condition. 1. Not My people. 2. Not beloved. II. Their gracious call-...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 9:27 Isaiah 10:22 notes that only some of Israel would be saved. Most of ISRAEL was judged. Only A REMNANT ex
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...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 9:25.—Refers not only to the gathering again of the Israelites rejected in the carrying away by Shalmaneser, but also of the Gentiles rejected at the building of Babel; remnan...
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...
Acts 17:31; Daniel 9:26; Daniel 9:27; Isaiah 28:22; Isaiah 30:12;...
For the reading of the A. V. read as Rev. The Lord will execute His word upon the earth, finishing and cutting it short. Difficulty arises on account of the variation in the Greek text and the differe...
For he is finishing or cutting short his account — In rigorous justice, will leave but a small remnant. There will be so general a destruction, that but a small number will escape....