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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:1-3

‘I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit, that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart, for I could wish that I myself were anathema from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh,’ He commences by making clear that what he has to say is as one who himself is ‘in Christ’ (‘in Messiah’), and as one who as regards the flesh is of Israelite descent (my brothers, kinsmen). They must not therefore see him... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:1-5

Paul Is Concerned For Israel Because In Spite Of Their Many Advantages A Large Proportion of Them Have Rejected The Messiah Who Has Come From Among Them (9:1-5). We find in Paul’s introductory comments some heart-rending words (Romans 9:1-3), as Paul demonstrates his love and concern for his fellow Israelites. He is not happy with their lot. He points out that the Israelites had many outward advantages, including the fact that they had produced the Messiah (Romans 9:1-5), but that he is... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:1-33

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 chapters 1-8, in which he has demonstrated that all, both Jews and Gentiles, have sinned, and that all must therefore find salvation by faith through Jesus Christ, God’s Messiah. And he does it by 1). demonstrating the relationship of both Jews and Gentiles to the Messiah Who has come, and 2). showing that Salvation is... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:4-5

‘Who are Israelites; whose is the adoption as sons, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises, whose are the fathers, and of whom is the Messiah (the Christ) as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.’ Paul now emphasises the huge benefits that had been the privilege of the Jews (compare Romans 2:17-20). Firstly that they were ‘Israelites’. Thus they belonged to the nation chosen and redeemed by God (Exodus... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:1-5

Romans 9:1-Deuteronomy : . Sorrow over the Reprobation of the Jews. Paul’ s rapture passes into anguish at the exclusion of his kinsmen from this blessedness. So the second theme of the epistle comes into view; see Introd. § 5 . Romans 9:1 f. The apostle was denounced as a renegade ( Acts 21:28, etc.); hence his solemn protest ( cf. Romans 1:9, 2 Corinthians 1:23, 1 Thessalonians 2:5). Romans 9:3 . His deeply-wounded love prompts the “ wish”— almost a prayer—“ that I were myself anathema,”... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 9:1

The apostle being about to treat of the rejection of the Jews and the calling of the Gentiles, before he enters upon it, he premiseth a preface, to prepare the minds of the Jews to a patient reading or hearing the same; and in this preface, he solemnly protesteth his love to his nation, and his hearty grief for their rejection, that so it might the better appear, that these things were not written out of any spleen or malice, but out of conscience towards God and the truth. I say truth in... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 9:2

His grief for his nation and people he expresseth, 1. By the greatness of it; it was such as a woman hath in travail so the word imports. 2. By the continuance of it; it was continual, or without intermission. 3. By the seat of it; it was in his heart, and not outward in his face. The cause he doth not here set down, but it is easily gathered from what follows, viz. the obstinacy and infidelity, together with the rejection, of the Jews. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 9:3

I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ; or, separated from Christ. This verse hath greatly vexed interpreters. Some read it, I did wish myself accursed from Christ: q.d. Before my conversion, I was willing to be accursed from Christ, to be a violent persecutor of the Christians, and so to be held of them as accursed for my brethren’s sake. The vulgar Latin, and many Romanists, thus render the word ηυχομην, in the text; but the generality of interpreters read it as we do, not... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 9:4

In this and the following verse, he rehearseth the privileges and advantages the Jews had from God, above all other nations of the earth; and this he doth to show, that he had good reason to make such a wish, as in the foregoing verse; as also, that what he should declare concerning the Jews, and their ejection, did not proceed from any disrespect or disesteem of them. Israelites; i.e. the offspring of that holy patriarch Israel: this was the Jews’ first title of honour, that they descended... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 9:5

Whose are the fathers; who are lineally descended of the holy patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, with other holy fathers and prophets, and of the same blood. This was also a great privilege, of which the Jews boasted. Of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came; or out of whom; understand the people of the Jews, not the fathers. The meaning is, Christ took his human nature of their stock. It is the great honour of mankind, that Christ took not the nature of angels, but of man; and it is a... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:1-3

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:1-5

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:1-33

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:4-5

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:1-5

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 9:1

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 9:2

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 9:3

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 9:4

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 9:5

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