Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Romans 9:12
9:12 her, (i-5) See Genesis 25:23 . read more
羅馬書 9:11-12 Cunpts
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 9:6-13
(6-13) Now follows a vindication of the dealings of God in rejecting Israel. And this is divided into three parts. Part 1 extends to the end of Romans 9:13, and the object of it is to clear the way by defining the true limits of the promise. It was not really to all Israel that the promise was given, but only to a particular section of Israel. read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 9:10-11
(10, 11) Nor was the restriction and special selection confined to the case of Abraham alone. It also appeared when Rebecca bore sons to Isaac. It was indeed pure selection. The children themselves had done nothing to make a preference be given to one over the other. There was no merit in the case. The object of the declaration was to ratify the divine electing purpose which had already chosen Jacob to be the inheritor of the Messianic blessings.Here we have the doctrine of election and... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 9:12
(12) The elder shall serve the younger.—The margin gives as an alternative rendering, “the greater shall serve the lesser.” The quotation is taken from the LXX., in which there is the same ambiguity.This ambiguity also appears to exist in the Hebrew, where it is a disputed question whether the words refer to age or to the comparative strength of the two peoples. In either case, it is the nations that should spring from Esau and Jacob that are meant. 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
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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Romans 9:10-12
God’s special election of one portion of Abraham’s descendants for special blessing is further evident in His choice of Jacob rather than Esau. Someone might say that Isaac was obviously the natural son through whom blessing would come since he was the first son born to Abraham and Sarah. That was not true of Jacob. Furthermore Esau and Jacob both had the same mother as well as the same father, so that was not a factor, as an objector might claim it was in Isaac and Ishmael’s case. Jacob and... read more