Is there unrighteousness? — Again, as in Romans 3:5, the Apostle anticipates a possible objection. Does not this apparently arbitrary choice of one and rejection of another imply injustice in Him who exercises it? The thought is not to be entertained.
Verse Romans 9:14. _WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN?_] To what conclusion shall we come on the facts before us? Shall we suggest that God's bestowing peculiar privileges in this unequal manner, on those who o...
WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? - What conclusion shall we draw from these acknowledged facts, and from these positive declarations of Scripture. IS THERE UNRIGHTEOUSNESS WITH GOD? - Does God do injustice or...
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...
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
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...
WHAT, &C. See Romans 3:5. UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. Greek. _adikia._ App-128. WITH. Greek. _para_. App-104. GOD FORBID. See Luke 20:16....
Electing Sovereignty: Vindication, Restatement and application (A) Is God unrighteous? 14. _What shall we say then?_ Same words as Romans 3:5; Romans 4:1; Romans 6:1;...
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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WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN?— So far the Apostle, in this chapter, has considered God's choosing or refusing any body of men in general, without supposing them to be corrupt, or to have forfeited the divin...
_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...
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? (SEE THE NOTE AT ) IS THERE UNRIGHTEOUSNESS WITH GOD? GOD FORBID. Here we again quote from Olshausen,...
__ 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...
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...
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...
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...
In the second part of his theodicy Paul meets the objection that this sovereign freedom of God is essentially unjust....
τί οὖν ἐροῦμεν; _cf._ Romans 6:1; Romans 7:7; Romans 8:31. It is Paul who speaks, anticipating, as he cannot help doing, the objection which is sure to rise, not only in Jewish minds, though it is wit...
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...
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....
(10) What shall we say then? [Is there] (n) unrighteousness with God? God forbid. (10) The first objection: if God loves or hates without any consideration of worthiness or unworthiness, then is he u...
What shall we say, then? Is there injustice with God, when he bestows special favours and benefits on some, and not on others? He answers, by no means. And he justifies almighty God's conduct, ver. 22...
“ _What shall we say then? Is there not unrighteousness with God? Let it not be! For He saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion. So...
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...
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...
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...
_NO UNRIGHTEOUSNESS WITH GOD_ ‘As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.’ Romans 9:13 Jacob had great sins,...
14._What then shall we say? etc. _The flesh cannot hear of this wisdom of God without being instantly disturbed by numberless questions, and without attempting in a manner to call God to an account. W...
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...
WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN?.... A form of expression the apostle frequently uses, when he is about to introduce an objection, as is what follows: IS THERE UNRIGHTEOUSNESS WITH GOD? This is not an objecti...
What shall we say then? _Is there_ unrighteousness with God? God forbid. Ver. 14. _ls there_] Carnal reason dares reprehend what it does not comprehend. (Para.)...
_What shall we say then?_ To this. The apostle now introduces and refutes an objection. _Is there unrighteousness_, or injustice, _with God?_ In the distribution of his providential blessings, in this...
IS THERE UNRIGHTEOUSNESS WITH GOD? is it wrong for him to make such distinctions as he does among men? GOD FORBID; certainly not: for every thing he does, he has the wisest and best reasons. Whatever...
WHAT SHALL WE SAY, THEN? IS THERE UNRIGHTEOUSNESS WITH GOD? GOD FORBID!...
THE DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY AND ITS RESULT. A serious objection answered:...
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 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...
WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? IS THERE UNRIGHTEOUSNESS WITH GOD? GOD FORBID. 'What shall we say then? -five times already in this Epistle he has asked this question. (Romans 3:5;Romans 4:1;Romans 6:1;
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...
Another anticipation of an objection. Some might object and say: If God elect some, and reject others, their case being the same, or their persons being in themselves equal and alike, then he is unjus...
What shall, we say then? [The apostle makes frequent use of the semi-dialogue. Five times already in this Epistle he has asked this question (Romans 3:5; Romans 4:1; Romans 6:1; Rom
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV "For there is no unrighteousness with God,"[256] Origen de Principiis Book I How could his soul and its images be formed along with his body, who, before he was...
Romans 9:14 What G5101 say G2046 (G5692) then G3767 G3361 unrighteousness G93 with G3844 God G2316 not...
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...
‘What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not.' Paul first raises the question that might be asked, ‘does this not mean that God is behaving unfairly?' Paul's reply is stro...
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...
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...
Romans 9:14. WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? This question introduces an objection, as in chaps. Romans 3:5; Romans 6:1; Romans 7:7, which is then stated in the form of anothe
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...
IS THERE UNRIGHTEOUSNESS WITH GOD? (μη αδικια παρα τω θεωι?). Paul goes right to the heart of the problem. Μη expects a negative answer. "Beside" (παρα) God there can be no injustice to Esau or to...
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...
THAT GOD IS UNJUST? God treats all men on the same basis (Acts 10:34-35). The Jew would say that God was being unjust, if he did not choose on the basis of family-line or actions. Paul shows now that...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 9:14 God is just in choosing one over the other because _no one_ deserves to be saved (see Romans 3:23). The salvation of anyone at all is due to God’s...
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 9:13. AS IT IS WRITTEN, JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED—There is no necessity to soften the “hated” into “loved less”; the words in Malachi proceed on the fullest meaning of ἐ...
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 Chronicles 19:7; Deuteronomy 32:4; Genesis 18:25; Jeremiah 12:1;...
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...
Is there injustice with God — Is it unjust in God to give Jacob the blessing rather than Esau? or to accept believers, and them only. God forbid — In no wise. This is well consistent with justice; for...
The apostle having by the two foregoing instances asserted his doctrine, concerning the purpose and decree of God to justify those that should believe in his Son, be they Gentiles or Jews: and consequ...