Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Romans 9:6
RV 'But it is not as though the word of God hath come to nought.' Israel] in the sense of inheritors of the promise. Of Israel] i.e. by physical descent from Jacob.
RV 'But it is not as though the word of God hath come to nought.' Israel] in the sense of inheritors of the promise. Of Israel] i.e. by physical descent from Jacob.
Verse Romans 9:6. _NOT AS THOUGH THE WORD OF GOD HATH TAKEN NONE_ _EFFECT._] A Jew might have objected, as in Romans 3:3: "Is not God bound by his faithfulness to continue the Jews as his peculiar Ch...
NOT AS THOUGH ... - Not as though the promise of God had entirely failed. Though I grieve thus Romans 9:2, though I am deeply apprehensive for the nation, yet I do not affirm that all the nation is to...
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:...
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...
I tell you the truth as one who is united to Christ is bound to do. I do not lie. My conscience bears witness with me in the Holy Spirit when I say that my grief is great and there is unceasing anguis...
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
WORD. Greek. _logos._ App-121. GOD. App-98. TAKEN, &C Literally fallen out. failed. Compare 1 Corinthians 13:8....
Limitations of the problem from facts of Divine election 6. _Not as though_, &c. Here begins a paragraph, and with it the main subject of the rest of this chapter. St Paul has expressed his intense g...
6–13. The present condition of Israel has not been explicitly stated in Romans 9:1-5, but implied in S. Paul’s wish that he might have been ἀνάθεμα� for them. They are ἀνάθεμα� in spite of all their p...
ΟΥ̓Χ ΟἿΟΝ—ὍΤΙ. A unique combination: cf. Field, _ad loc_[180] He decides that οὐχ οἶον is in vulgar use a strong negative = nequaquam, ne minimum: ‘It is by no means the fact that.…’ [180] _ad loc._...
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...
ΟΎΧ ΟΊΟΝ (G3756; G3634) rel. _pron._ качественный род или образ действия, подобный. Здесь используется как устойчивое выражение: "но не то, чтобы" (AS), ΈΚΠΈΠΤΩΚΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΈΚΠΊΠΤΩ (G1601...
DISCOURSE: 1884 ISRAEL IN THE MIDST OF ISRAEL Romans 9:6. _They are not all Israel who are of Israel_. EVIL as have been the dispositions of those who have set themselves against the doctrines of the...
THE WORD OF GOD— The word of promise. See Romans 9:9 and chap. Romans 3:3. St. Paul urges, that _they are not all Israel which are of Israel,_ as a reason to prove that the promise of God failed not t...
_TEXT_ Romans 9:1-13. I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit, Romans 9:2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart. Romans 9:3 For...
Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: NOT AS THOUGH THE WORD OF GOD HATH TAKEN NONE EFFECT, [ ekpeptooken (G1601)] - or 'failed' (a...
__ 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...
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...
NOT AS THOUGH. — The scholar will observe that there appears to be here a mixture of two constructions, “the case is not such that,” and “I do not mean to say that,” “I do not intend to say that the c...
(6-13) Now follows a vindication of the dealings of God in rejecting Israel. And this is divided into three parts. Part 1 extends to the end of Romans 9:13, and the object of it is to clear the way by...
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...
οὐχ οἷον δὲ ὅτι : this unique expression is explained by Buttmann (_Grammar_, p. 372, Thayer's Transl.) as a blending of two formulas οὐχ οἷον followed by a finite verb, and οὐχ ὅτι, which is common i...
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...
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....
(3) Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they [are] not all (h) Israel, which are of Israel: (3) He enters into the handling of predestination, by means of presenting an objection...
Not as though the word of God hath failed in his promises made to Abraham and the patriarchs. The Jews pretended that the promises were made to them only, and to those that were of their race, and tha...
“ _Not as though the word of God were made of no effect; for they are not all Israel_, _which are of Israel. Neither because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children; but, In Isaac shall th...
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...
Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: (7) Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall th...
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...
6._Not however, etc. _Paul had been carried away by the ardour of his wish, as it were, into an excess of feeling, _( __in ecstasin _ _,) _but now, returning to discharge his office as a teacher, he a...
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...
NOT AS THOUGH THE WORD OF GOD HATH TAKEN NONE EFFECT,.... Or "it is not possible indeed that the word of God should fall"; see 1 Samuel 3:10; This the apostle says, partly to relieve his own mind pres...
Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they _are_ not all Israel, which are of Israel: Ver. 6. _Not as though the word_] That word of promise, Romans 9:4, which is sure hold, "Yea...
_Not as though_ The original expression, ουχ οιον δε οτι, is rather obscure; but Erasmus supplying, after the Greek scholiast, the words τουτο ου λεγω, seems to have given the sense of it thus; _I do...
THE WORD OF GOD; his word of promise to Abraham and his seed. HATH TAKEN NONE EFFECT; hath failed of fulfilment. The great error of the unbelieving Jews was in thinking that the covenant of God with...
NOT AS THOUGH THE WORD OF GOD HATH TAKEN NONE EFFECT. FOR THEY ARE NOT ALL ISRAEL WHICH ARE OF ISRAEL,...
The promises of God concern the spiritual descendants of Abraham:...
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...
God's Word has not failed, not lack power."THEY ARE NOT ALL ISRAEL, WHICH ARE OF ISRAEL." 1. Not all born a Jew are faithful to God. 2. Faith, not birth, is the key. APPLY: To the church - 1. "Not...
__ Romans 9:6 But it is not as though the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel: "word of God hath come to nought" -'has failed' (NASV); 'It doesn't mean God...
6-13 The rejection of the Jews by the gospel dispensation, did not break God's promise to the patriarchs. The promises and threatenings shall be fulfilled. Grace does not run in the blood; nor are sa...
An objection is here obviated: the Jews might object and say: If they were cast off and rejected, then God is unfaithful, and all his promises made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and their seed, are in...
But it is not as though the word of God hath come to nought. [Or, as Fritsche translates, "The matter, however, is not so as that the word of God had come to nought." Paul is answering the reasoning o...
Romans 9:6 not G3756 that G3634 G1161 G3754 word G3056 God G2316 effect G1601 (G5758) For...
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...
‘But it is not as though the word of God has come to nought. For they are not all Israel, who are of Israel,' Paul is here concerned to demonstrate that the word of God has not come to nought in the f...
THE REJECTION OF THEIR MESSIAH BY THE MAJORITY OF ISRAEL HAS NOT BROUGHT THE WORD OF GOD TO NOUGHT FOR IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE CASE THAT NOT ALL OF SUPPOSED ISRAEL ARE TRULY ISRAEL, BUT ONLY THOSE WHO...
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...
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...
Romans 9:6. BUT IT IS NOT SO, THAT. The Apostle returns to the fact that the Jews rejected the gospel, and proceeds to account for it by stating that the promise holds good only for the true Israelite...
BUT IT IS NOT AS THOUGH (ουχ οιον δε οτ). Supply εστιν after ουχ: "But it is not such as that," an old idiom, here alone in N.T.HATH COME TO NOUGHT (εκπεπτωκεν). Perfect active indicative of εκπι...
FOR THEY ARE NOT ALL ISRAEL The distinction is between Israel after the flesh, the mere natural posterity of Abraham, and Israelites who, through faith, are also Abraham's spiritual children. Gentile...
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...
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...
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...
I AM NOT SAYING. The Jew might say: "If Israel had such honor from God, why is the nation rejected? If Jesus really is the Messiah, has God canceled his promises?" Paul uses the rest of this chapter t...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 9:6 Though many Jews have failed to believe, God’s promise to them has not failed. It was never true that _all_ of the physical CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM were part of the people of God...
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 9:1. 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....
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...
2 Timothy 2:13; Galatians 6:16; Hebrews 6:17; Hebrews 6:18; Isaiah
Not as though [ο υ χ ο ι ο ν δ ε ο τ ι]. Rev., but it is not as though. The thought is abruptly introduced. I am not speaking of a matter of such a nature as that the doctrine of faith involves the fa...
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...
Not as if — The Jews imagined that the word of God must fail if all their nation were not saved. This St. Paul now refutes, and proves that the word itself had foretold their falling away. The word of...
Here the apostle answers an objection against the rejection of the Jews: "If they cast off by God, what will become of the promise of God, made to Abraham, saying, I WILL BE THY GOD, AND THE GOD OF TH...