로마서 9:1-6 KRV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Romans 9:1-5

We have here the apostle's solemn profession of a great concern for the nation and people of the Jews?that he was heartily troubled that so many of them were enemies to the gospel, and out of the way of salvation. For this he had great heaviness and continual sorrow. Such a profession as this was requisite to take off the odium which otherwise he might have contracted by asserting and proving their rejection. It is wisdom as much as may be to mollify those truths which sound harshly and seem... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Romans 9:6-13

The apostle, having made his way to that which he had to say, concerning the rejection of the body of his countrymen, with a protestation of his own affection for them and a concession of their undoubted privileges, comes in these verses, and the following part of the chapter, to prove that the rejection of the Jews, by the establishment of the gospel dispensation, did not at all invalidate the word of God's promise to the patriarchs: Not as though the word of God hath taken no effect (Rom.... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Romans 9:1-6

In Romans 9:1-33 ; Romans 10:1-21 ; Romans 11:1-36 Paul tries to deal with one of the most bewildering problems that the Church has to solve--the problem of the Jews. They were God's chosen people; they had had a unique place in God's purposes; and yet when God's Son had come into the world they had rejected him and crucified him. How is this tragic paradox to be explained? That is the problem with which Paul seeks to deal in these chapters. They are complicated and difficult, and,... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Romans 9:1-6

9:1-6 I tell you the truth as one who is united to Christ is bound to do. I do not lie. My conscience bears witness with me in the Holy Spirit when I say that my grief is great and there is unceasing anguish in my heart. I could pray that I myself might be accursed so that I was completely separated from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen as far as human relationship goes. For my kinsmen are the Israelites, and theirs is the special sonship of God, and the glory and the covenants... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 9:1

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not ,.... The apostle being about to discourse concerning predestination, which he had mentioned in the preceding chapter, and to open the springs and causes of it, and also concerning the induration and rejection of the Jewish nation; he thought it necessary to preface his account of these things with some strong assurances of his great attachment to that people, and his affection for them, lest it should be thought he spoke out of prejudice to them; and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 9:2

That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. This is the thing he appeals to Christ for the truth of, and calls in his conscience and the Holy Ghost to bear witness to. These two words, "heaviness" and "sorrow", the one signifies grief, which had brought on heaviness on his spirits; and the other such pain as a woman in travail feels: and the trouble of his mind expressed by both, is described by its quantity, "great", it was not a little, but much; by its quality it was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 9:3

For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ ,.... Some consider this as the reason of the apostle's great heaviness, and continual sorrow of heart, because he had made such a wish as this, and read the words, "for I have wished", or "did wish"; that is, in my unregenerate state, whilst I was a persecutor of Christ, and a blasphemer of his name, I wished to be for ever separated from him, and to have nothing to do with him; for then I thought I ought to do many things contrary to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 9:4

Who are Israelites ,.... Which were their national name, as descended from Jacob, whose name was Israel; and it was accounted a very honourable one; see Philemon 3:5 ; and the very name they bore gave the apostle some concern that they should be cut off; and then he proceeds to enumerate the several distinguishing favours and privileges they had been partakers of: to whom pertaineth the adoption ; not that special adoption, which springs from eternal predestination, is a blessing of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 9:5

Whose are the fathers ,.... Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; for, according to the F1 T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 16. 2. & Gloss. in ib. Jewish writers, "they call none in Israel אבות , "fathers", but three, and they are Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and they call none "mothers" but four, and they are, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah:' their descent from these fathers was a privilege, though they valued themselves too highly upon it; but what was the crown and glory of all, and which they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 9:6

Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect ,.... Or "it is not possible indeed that the word of God should fall"; see 1 Samuel 3:10 ; This the apostle says, partly to relieve his own mind pressed with sorrow, and partly to obviate an objection some might make, or prevent any mistake any might be ready to go into; as though from what he suggested that what God had said concerning the people of the Jews, was made void and without effect: for whether by the "word of God" are meant,... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Romans 9:1-5

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Romans 9:6-13

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Romans 9:1-6

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Romans 9:1-6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 9:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 9:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 9:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 9:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 9:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 9:6

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