Romans 9:28

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) sunteloon (G4931) kai (G2532) suntemnoon (G4932)] - rather, 'For He is finishing the matter and cutting it short in' IN RIGHTEOUSNESS: BECAUSE A SHORT WORK ('MATTER') WILL THE LORD MAKE UPON THE EARTH. [Lachmann and Tregelles omit en (G1722) dikaiosunee...

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, that the residue may seem as it were a consumption, that is, may have the appearance and the vestige of a very great ruin. However, the few who shall remain from the consumption shall be a proof of the work of God’s righteousness, or, what I prefer, shall serve to testify the righteousness of God throughout the world. As _word _often in Scripture means a thing, the consummated word is put for consumption. Many interpreters have here been grossly mistaken, who have attempted to philosophize with too much refinement; for they have imagined, that the doctrine of the gospel is thus called, because it is, when the ceremonies are cut off, a brief compendium of the law; though the word means on the...

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 is a wonder of Divine power and mercy that there are any saved: for even those left to be a seed, if God had dealt with them according to their sins, had perished with the rest. This great truth this Scripture teaches us. Even among the vast number of professing Christians it is to be feared that only a remnant will be saved....

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_, and will _immediately execute_ upon them the punishment due to their transgressions....

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 or disguise. This doctrine related to the rejection of the Jews; a far more difficult point to establish than was that of the calling of the Gentiles. It was needful, therefore, to fortify it by some explicit passage of the Scriptures. CONCERNING ISRAEL - Concerning “the Jews.” It is probable that Isaiah had reference primarily to the Jews of his own time; to that wicked generation that God was about to punish, by sending them captive into other lands. The case was one, however, which settled a “gen

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 inheritance of the promises. _This section is not necessary for the main argument of the Epistle, which would have been complete without it for an exposition of God's righteousness, Romans 12:1. following naturally the conclusion of Romans 8:1., and these intervening chapters having no immediate connection with the preceding or succeeding context. But it was a subject too deeply

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 off, which commonly is but little; and so regards the small number of the Jews that shall be called and saved, as before: others read it "the word", and differently explain it; some understanding it of the incarnate Word, of his being emptied, and made of no reputation, of his being cut off in a very short time, a few years after he had entered upon his public ministry, and of the few persons converted under it; others of the law, of the cutting off, or abolishing the ceremonial law, perfecting or completing the moral law, and abbreviating it, or reducing it into a short compendium; others of the Gospel, bringing in and revealing a perfect righteousness, for the justification of sinners, whi...

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 have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:_ They hated Paul intensely; nothing could surpass the malice of the Jews against the man whom they reckoned to be an apostate from the true faith, because he had become a follower of Christ, the Nazarene. Yet note what is Paul's feeling towards his cruel countrymen; he is willing, as it were, to put his own salvation in pawn if by doing so the Jews might but be saved. You must not measure these words by any hard grammatical rule, you must understand them as spoken out of the depths of great loving heart; and when such a

LORD Adonai Jehovah. (Isaiah 10:23)....

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 Isaiah 10:22-23 by inserting evn dikaiosu,nh|( o[ti lo,gon suntetmhme,non. Considered in itself, the absence of these words from î46vid a* A B 1739 1881 syrp copsa, bo eth _al_ could be explained as arising when the eye of a copyist accidentally passed from sunte,mnwn to...