romans-9:30-11:36-niv

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 9:30

(30) Which followed not after righteousness.—Not having a special revelation, and being inattentive to the law of conscience.Attained to righteousness.—By accepting the offer of Christianity, and especially the Christian doctrine of justification by faith. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 9:30-33

(30-33) The Apostle has finished with his vindication of the rejection of Israel, and finished also with the course of argument which seemed to bear a strong character of determinism. He now takes up a point of view which is the direct opposite of this, and in explaining the causes which led to the rejection of Israel, those which he puts forward are all such as depend for their validity on the freedom of the will. It is needless to say that this is abundantly recognised in other parts of St.... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Romans 9:1-33

I Caught Myself Wishing Romans 9:3 'I caught myself wishing praying that I were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh.' Nothing brings us nearer the heart of St. Paul than that. His wish, it has been finely said, was a spark from the fire of Christ's substitutionary love. Moses was willing to perish with his people. 'If not I pray Thee blot me out of Thy book.' The Apostle caught himself wishing that he might die for them, if need were, the eternal death. I.... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Romans 9:1-33

Chapter 20THE SORROWFUL PROBLEM: JEWISH UNBELIEF; DIVINE SOVEREIGNTYRomans 9:1-33WE may well think that again there was silence awhile in that Corinthian chamber, when Tertius had duly inscribed the last words we have studied. A "silence in heaven" follows, in the Apocalypse, {Revelation 8:1} the vision of the white hosts of the redeemed, gathered at last, in their eternal jubilation, before the throne of the Lamb. A silence in the soul is the fittest immediate sequel to such a revelation of... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Romans 9:1-33

II. DISPENSATIONAL. GOD’S DEALINGS WITH ISRAEL. Chapters 9-11. 1. Israel and God’s Sovereignty. CHAPTER 9 1. Paul’s Yearning over Israel. (Romans 9:1-3 .) 2. What Israel Possesseth. (Romans 9:4-5 .) 3. God’s Unconditional Election. (Romans 9:6-13 .) 4. God’s Sovereignty. The Vindication of His Justice and Mercy. (Romans 9:14-26 .) 5. Mercy for the Remnant. (Romans 9:27-29 .) 6. Israel’s Rejection of God’s Righteousness. (Romans 9:30-33 .) This second division brings before us Israel... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Romans 9:30

9:30 {27} What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed {e} not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.(27) The declaration and manifestation of our election is our calling apprehended by faith, as it came to pass in the Gentiles.(e) So then, the Gentiles had no works to prepare and procure God’s mercy before hand: and that the Gentiles attained to that which they did not seek, the mercy of God is to be thanked for it: and in... read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:1-33

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 special promises to Israel? Did the apostle utterly ignore these in his zeal for the conversion of Gentiles? Far be the thought! Such accusations which were bound to be hurled against him, are utterly denied and proven false in his most admirable discussion, in chapters 9, 10 and 11, of Israel's... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Romans 9:1-33

PARENTHESIS CONCERNING ISRAEL These chapters carry us back to chapter 3, where Paul proved the lost condition of the Jew as well as the Gentiles. But if this were so it might be charged that the Old Testament promises to Israel had failed, which he now shows is not the case. This line of argument is threefold: first, some of Israel were already saved (chap. 9); secondly, all of Israel might be saved but for unbelief (chap. 10); thirdly, all of Israel would be saved ultimately (chap. 11).... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Romans 9:19-33

Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? (20) Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? (21) Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor? (22) What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Romans 9:30-32

What then shall we say? Or what shall we conclude from these testimonies of the Scripture, but this paradox, as St. John Chrysostom calls it, that they who sought for justice, or sanctification, found it not, and they who did not seek it, found it; that is, the Jews, who sought for this justice by the works of their law, which they magnified so much, have not attained to that law that could make them just; whereas the Gentiles, who had no such written law to confide in, have only sought to be... read more