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Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Romans 9:3

For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:I could wish — Human words cannot fully describe the motions of souls that are full of God. As if he had said, I could wish to suffer in their stead; yea, to be an anathema from Christ in their place. In how high a sense he wished this, who can tell, unless himself had been asked and had resolved the question? Certainly he did not then consider himself at all, but only others and the glory... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Romans 9:4

Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;Whose is the adoption, … — He enumerates six prerogatives, of which the first pair respect God the Father, the second Christ, the third the Holy Ghost.The adoption and the glory — That is, Israel is the first-born child of God, and the God of glory is their God, Deuteronomy 4:7; Psalm 106:20. These are relative to each other. At once God is... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Romans 9:5

Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.To the preceding, St. Paul now adds two more prerogatives. Theirs are the fathers - The patriarchs and holy men of old, yea, the Messiah himself.Who is over all, God blessed for ever — The original words imply the self-existent, independent Being, who was, is, and is to come.Over all — The supreme; as being God, and consequently blessed for ever. No words can more dearly express... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:1

1. St. Paul’s great Grief at Israel’s Rejection , Romans 9:1-5 . 1. In Christ Some commentators have strangely rendered this as an oath by Christ. The phrase is parallel with in the Holy Ghost in this verse, and both are parallel to the phrases in Christ in a great number of passages. The Christian, as such, is in Christ; his whole words and works are wrought in Christ. (See note on Romans 6:3.) Lie not As doubtless the Jewish zealots in the synagogue disputes had often... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:3

3. I could wish Not I did wish, nor I do wish; but, if it were a thing permissible, either in the fact or in the wish, then I could wish. The apostle, then, does not rally form or entertain the wish, but he comes as nigh to it as the right allows. (See note on Matthew 26:39.) Accursed The Greek would be, I could wish myself an anathema from Christ. An anathema in the Jewish ritual was a thing consecrated to God. It was thereby God’s own property, no longer man’s. Hence it was... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:4

4. Israelites Their loftier title, derived not from Jacob, the supplanter, nor, like Jews, from a single remnant tribe (Judah) alone; but derived from their great founder, and from his name given as wrestler and overcomer with God. Paul in these two verses enumerates the glories of Israel in the true enthusiasm of an Israelite, to show how he sympathized in Israelite greatness. The passage is parallel with Romans 3:2; Romans 2:17-20, where see notes. The adoption By which Abraham and his... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:5

5. The fathers Including not only Abraham and his patriarchal sons, but the whole wonderful pedigree running through Heber up to Adam. This recorded pedigree, the very pith of the human race, Israel alone had preserved. At one end (according to Luke’s list) was Adam and God, at the other Christ; so that Israel was the divine Adamic-Messianic race. The flesh In antithesis with his being over all, God. So that we have here his double nature as human-divine. Over all As he is humanly the... read more

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Romans 9:3

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Romans 9:4

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Romans 9:5

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:1

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:3

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:4

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:5

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