Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Romans 11:35
Or who hath (i) first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
(i) This saying overthrows the doctrine of foreseen works and merits.
Or who hath (i) first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
(i) This saying overthrows the doctrine of foreseen works and merits.
Verse Romans 11:35. _OR, WHO HATH FIRST GIVEN TO HIM_] Who can pretend to have any _demands_ upon God? To whom is he _indebted_? Have either Jews or Gentiles any _right_ to his blessings? May not he...
OR WHO HATH ... - The sentiment in this verse is found substantially in Job 41:11. “Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him.” The Hebrew word “prevented” means to anticipate, to go before; and...
ISRAEL'S RESTORATION. CHAPTER 11 (“The Jewish Question”, by A. C. G., gives a complete exposition of this great chapter.) _ 1. God Hath not Cast Away His People. (Romans 11:1 .)_ 2. Israel's Apost...
THE MYSTERY OF ISRAEL'S FUTURE. Romans 11:25_ a_. It may save Gentile believers from a dangerous self-conceit (_cf. Romans 12:16_) to learn the secret that the hardening (see Romans 11:7) which has pa...
THE CALLUS ON THE HEART (Romans 11:1-12)...
O the depth of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How his decisions are beyond the mind of man to trace! How mysterious are his ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or, who h...
HATH FIRST GIVEN. gave first. Greek. _prodidomi._ Only here. RECOMPENSED... AGAIN. repaid. Greek. _antapodidomi._ Here, Romans 12:19; Luke 14:14; 1 Thessalonians 3:9;...
_hath first given to him_, &c. "Who hath laid Him _under obligation?_" (Cp. Job 35:7.) Such is no doubt the special reference here. It affects not only the discussions of cch. 9 11, but also (as does...
35. Job 41:11 (Heb.)....
In dealing with this awful problem the last and deepest thought is, how infinite is the wealth and wisdom and knowledge in GOD, how far we are from being able to explore all His judgments or to track...
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...
ΠΡΟΈΔΩΚΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΡΟΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G4272) давать заранее, платить вперед (MM; Dunn). Если бы человек мог первым сделать что-л. для Бога, Бог был бы его должником (Godet). ΆΝΤΑΠΟΔΟΘΉΣΕΤΑΙ _fut....
DISCOURSE: 1903 GOD ALL IN ALL Romans 11:34. _Who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? For of...
OR WHO HATH FIRST GIVEN TO HIM, &C.— This has a manifest respect to the _Jews,_ who claimed a right to be the people of God so far, that St. Paul (chap. Romans 9:14.) finds it necessary to vindicate t...
_TEXT_ Romans 11:33-36. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out! Romans 11:34 For who hath known the mi...
Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? OR WHO HATH FIRST GIVEN TO HIM, AND IT SHALL BE RECOMPENSED UNTO HIM AGAIN? - `and shall have recompense made to him agai...
__ Conciliation-National 22 Nothing shows the blindness of Christendom more than their severe denunciation of faithless Israel, yet they are following precisely the same course and have not the slig...
11:35 him? (g-14) See Isaiah 40:13 ; Job 41:11 ....
ISRAEL'S REJECTION NOT FINAL. A WARNING TO THE GENTILES In this chapter St. Paul brings to an end his great exposition of God's dealings with the Jews. He has shown in Romans 9 that God is free to cho...
From Job 41:11....
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 11 GOD’S PLAN FOR *ISRAEL’S FUTURE 11:1-32 THE RESULTS OF THE *JEWS’ FAILURE TO OBEY GOD 11:1-12 V1 So, I tell you th...
The depth of God’s knowledge none can penetrate, and the counsels of His wisdom admit of no assessor. The means by which God works are not supplied to Him from without, but proceed from the boundless...
(33-36) This grand and comprehensive view of the divine purposes makes so deep an impression upon the Apostle that he breaks out into an impassioned ascription of praise, with which the first (doctrin...
CHAPTER 24 THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL DIRECTLY FORETOLD: ALL IS OF AND FOR GOD Romans 11:25 THUS far St. Paul has rather reasoned than predicted. He has shown his Gentile friends the naturalness, so...
ἢ τίς προέδωκεν αὐτῷ, καὶ ἀνταποδοθήσεται αὐτῷ; see Job 41:11 (A.V.). The translation of Job 41:3, Hebrew, is perhaps Paul's own, as the LXX is entirely different and wrong. The point of the quotation...
THAT GOD “MIGHT HAVE MERCY UPON ALL” Romans 11:25 “Mysteries” are the reasons and principles of the divine procedure which are hidden from ordinary minds, but revealed to the children of God by the S...
This discussion now gives rise to a new question, "Did God cast off His people?" They were created a nation in order that through them all the nations should be blessed. Failing to realize the divine...
O the depth, &c. After he hath spoken of the mysteries of God's grace and predestination, of his mercy and justice, which we must not pretend to dive into, he concludes this part of his epistle, by an...
“ _For who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been His counsellor? Or who hath first given to Him, and it shall be recompensed unto Him again?_ ” Here is the Scripture proof that God's desig...
I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. (12) Now if the fall of them be 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...
35._Who has first given to him, etc. _Another reason, by which God’s righteousness is most effectually defended against all the accusations of the ungodly: for if no one retains him bound to himself b...
Hereupon the question is immediately raised, has God then rejected His people? To this Chapter 11 is the answer. The apostle gives three proofs that it is by no means the case. Firstly, he is himself...
OR WHO HATH FIRST GIVEN TO HIM,.... See Job 41:11; no man can give God anything, which he has not first given him, or which he has not a prior right to, or a claim upon him for; Adam, in innocence, wa...
Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? Ver. 35. Who hath first given to himJ Do we not owe him all that we have and are? And can a man merit by paying his debts?...
_O the depth_ The unsearchable, inconceivable abundance; _of the riches_, &c. In the ninth chapter, Paul had sailed but in a narrow sea, now he is in the immense ocean: _of the wisdom and knowledge of...
WHO HATH FIRST GIVEN; who ever gave to God any thing which God did not first give to him? No one; for no one ever had any thing, except what he received from God....
A concluding doxology:...
OR WHO HATH FIRST GIVEN TO HIM, AND IT SHALL BE RECOMPENSED TO HIM AGAIN?...
ISRAEL YET TO BE RESTORED We have seen in Romans 9:1 that there is an election according to the grace of God in Israel: in Romans 10:1 this is shown to be on the basis of faith in contrast to law: now...
To whom does God owe a debt? Did you first give to God and now He must return the favor? NO! Does God offer to save us because it is His way of repaying a debt? 36 OF HIM - He is the source, point of...
__ Romans 11:35 or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? From Job 2:11. 'Or who has advanced anything to him' (Gspd); 'So as to receive payment in return' (Mon) 'W...
33-36 The apostle Paul knew the mysteries of the kingdom of God as well as ever any man; yet he confesses himself at a loss; and despairing to find the bottom, he humbly sits down at the brink, and a...
q.d. If any man hath obliged God, by any thing he hath done for him, he shall have an ample reward: alluding (as some think) to JOB 41:11. But seeing this cannot be, and that God is indebted unto none...
or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? [Job 41:11. This question emphasizes the riches of God, introduced at verse 33. The riches mentioned are those of mercy and...
Romans 11:35 Or G2228 who G5101 given G4272 (G5656) Him G846 And G2532 repaid G467 (G5701) him...
‘For who has known the mind of the Lord? or who has been his counsellor? or who has first given to him, and it will be recompensed to him again?' For who can possibly fathom the mind of the Lord? And...
GOD'S PURPOSE WITH REGARD BOTH TO THE JEWS AND THE GENTILES (11:1-36). Paul now carries forward the doctrine of the Israel within Israel, and evidences it again from Scripture, making clear that those...
PAUL MARVELS AT THE AMAZING WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE OF GOD AS HE CONSIDERS GOD'S WAY OF WORKING AS REVEALED IN WHAT HE HIMSELF HAS SAID (11:33-36). Paul now marvels at the wisdom and knowledge that God h...
2. _The Rejection of Israel is not Final._ In this section is presented the prospective solution of the great historical problem, discussed in this part of the Epistle. Here Paul becomes a prophet; r...
Romans 11:35. OR WHO HATH FIRST GIVEN, etc. This is from Job 41:11, but follows the Hebrew, not the mistranslation of the LXX. This question refers to the depth of God's riches. No gift can recompense...
FIRST DRIVEN TO HIM (προεδωκεν αυτω). First aorist active indicative of προδιδωμ, to give beforehand or first. Old verb, here alone in N.T. From Job 41:11, but not like the LXX, Paul's own translat...
CONTENTS: A spiritual Israel finding salvation. National Israel blinded. Warning to Gentiles. Israel yet to be saved nationally. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Elijah, David, Abraham. CONCLUSION: The...
Romans 11:1. _Hath God cast away his people?_ The jews would say, what else can we infer? If the gentiles are now become the Israel of God, and if we are rejected for not embracing what Paul calls the...
HOW GREAT ARE GOD'S RICHES! In response to Romans 11:32, Paul gives a doxology of praise to God! The whole world, with its racism, violence, lust, and unbelief, may seem to be "disorganized confusion!...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 11:34 Paul quotes Isaiah 40:13 and Job 41:11 to highlight that all good things are gifts from Go
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 11:33.—JUDGMENTS are God’s decrees; AND HIS WAYS are His ways of bringing them to pass. How just is Paul’s reflection upon the whole of his preceding remarks! God’s works in p...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 11:1 (4) _The_ _Jews are not finally rejected, but, through the calling of the Gentiles, will be brought into the Church at last. _St. Paul, painfully recognizing the fact of the pr...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to Romans, chapter 11. In Chapter s 9-11 Paul is dealing with a couple of subjects; one the sovereignty of God, but it is the sovereignty of God in setting aside the nation...
1 Corinthians 4:7; Job 35:7; Job 41:11; Matthew 20:15...
Who hath first given, etc. From Job 41:3. Heb., Who has been beforehand with me that I should repay him? Paul here follows the Aramaic translation. The Septuagint is : Who shall resist me and abide ?...
Given to him — Either wisdom or power?...