Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Romans 9:5
9:5 all, (e-18) 'Who is over all' is emphatic. he exists and subsists as such. It may be translated also 'is' or 'exists God over all.' read more
Romans-9:1-5,-luke-14:1-6-niv
John Darby
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:1-33
The Rejection of Israel no Disparagement or Disproof of the GospelThe Apostle sorrows over the exclusion of Israel (Romans 9:1-5), but their exclusion does not involve any breach of God’s promises, for He always made a selection, even among the members of the chosen family (Romans 9:6-13). This cannot be unjust, for God has stated it to be His method (Romans 9:14-18). We should have no right to cavil, even if God seemed to use us sternly (Romans 9:19-21). But He has acted with mercy (Romans... read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:1-36
It was obvious that the Church of Christ was coming to be almost entirely a Gentile Church, and that the Jews as a whole were refusing to accept Jesus as their Messiah. The Jew argued from this fact that Christianity could not be true. For if the Christian Church were really the fulfilment of the promised Messianic kingdom, and if the Jews were shut out from it, then God’s promises to the Jews in the OT. would have been broken, which could not be imagined.In Romans 9-11, St. Paul grapples with... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 9:1
(1) I say the truth in Christ.—The meaning of this expression seems to be, “From the bottom of my soul, in the most sacred part of my being, as a Christian man united to Christ, I make this solemn asseveration.”My conscience.—Here, as in Romans 2:15, very much in the modern sense of the word, the introspective faculty which sits in judgment upon actions, and assigns to them their moral qualities of praise or blame. “This conscience of mine being also overshadowed with the Holy Spirit, and... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 9:1-5
(1-5) My heart bleeds for Israel, my country, that highly-privileged people. I could fain have changed places with them, and been myself cut off from Christ, if only they might have been saved. read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 9:3
(3) I could wish . . .—Rather, I could have wished. The wish, of course, related to what was really impossible. Still it is a nobly generous impulse, at which some weak minds have been shocked, and out of which others have made sentimental capital. Let us leave it as it is.Accursed from Christ.—Separated from Christ, and devoted to destruction. Does not the intensity of this expression help us to realise one aspect of the Atonement—“being made a curse for us” (Galatians 3:13)? (The Greek word... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 9:4
(4) The adoption.—They are the theocratic people, the people whom God had, as it were, adopted to Himself, and taken into the special filial relation. (Comp. Hosea 11:1, “I called my son out of Egypt;” Exodus 4:22, “Israel is my son, even my firstborn;” et al.)The glory.—The Shechinah, or visible symbol of God’s presence. (Comp. Exodus 16:10; Exodus 24:16; Exodus 40:34-35; 1 Samuel 4:22; 1 Kings 8:10-11; Ezekiel 1:28; Hebrews 9:5.)The covenants.—Not the two tables of stone, but the several... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 9:5
(5) The fathers.—The patriarchs—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.Who is over all, God blessed for ever.—These words are a well-known subject for controversy. Trinitarian and English interpreters, as a rule, take them with the punctuation of the Authorised version, as referring to Christ. Socinian interpreters, with some of the most eminent among the Germans, put a full stop after “came,” and make the remainder of the verse a doxology addressed to God, “Blessed for ever be God, who is over all.” Both... 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
Subscribe
Get Bible verse every day in your inbox
Read on Mobile
Most Searched
Group of Brands
© 2025 Bibleportal.com All rights reserved.
Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Romans 9:4
9:4 adoption, (c-7) As ch. 8.23. service, (d-19) As latreuo . See Note l to Matthew 4:10 . read more