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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

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

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 9:1-8

CRITICAL NOTESRomans 9:1. I speak in Christ the truth.—Not to be rendered, “I speak the truth in Christ.” The apostle, not as a man merely, but as a member of Christ, in His name, as His apostle.Romans 9:2.—λύπη, ὀδύνη, sorrow and pang.Romans 9:3.—St. Paul considers personal happiness subordinate to the general salvation.Romans 9:4.—The glory, the Shekinah; the covenants frequently repeated; the service of the tabernacle and temple; the true worship of God.Romans 9:5.—“In this passage five... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Romans 9:1-4

DISCOURSE: 1882THE PRIVILEGES OF JEWS AND CHRISTIANSRomans 9:1-4. I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I hare 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: 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.IT is... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Romans 9:1-5

DISCOURSE: 1883OUR DUTY TOWARDS THE JEWSRomans 9:1-5. 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: 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 are the fathers,... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Romans 9:1-33

Paul has just closed the eighth chapter of Romans in which he has taken us into the very peaks of the spiritual experiences that are ours in Christ Jesus. Showing us that we have this glorious place in the Lord where nothing can separate us from the love of God, neither tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or peril, nor nakedness, nor sword, for he is persuaded and in all these things we are more than conquerors. And that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities,... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Romans 9:1-33

Romans 9:1 . I say the truth in Christ, I lie not. These forms of speech are equivalent to a solemn oath, and emanate from a heart deeply imbued with the sentiments of the Saviour, who often wept over his unhappy country. The holy apostle, having placed the church on a hill in the preseding chapter, turns his weeping eyes towards his kinsmen after the flesh, who were enraged against him, because he had denied them salvation by the works of the law, and had defended the gentiles as co-equal... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Romans 9:1-5

Romans 9:1-5I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost.The truthI. Should be spoken always, and under all circumstances.II. Should be spoken in christ.1. As a Christian duty.2. As in Christ’s presence.3. In Christ’s Spirit.4. For Christ’s honour.III. Should be attended by conscience.1. Enlightened.2. Influenced.3. Approved by the Holy Spirit.IV. May only be confirmed by direct appeal to God under very solemn and extraordinary circumstances. (J.... read more

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