Romans 9:2 NIV

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

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 9:2

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 Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:2

Verse 2 2.That I have great sorrow, etc. He dexterously manages so to cut short his sentence as not yet to express what he was going to say; for it was not as yet seasonable openly to mention the destruction of the Jewish nation. It may be added, that he thus intimates a greater measure of sorrow, as imperfect sentences are for the most part full of pathos. But he will presently express the cause of his sorrow, after having more fully testified his sincerity. But the perdition of the Jews... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 9:1-5

(1) Deep regret expressed for the present exclusion of the Jewish nation from inheritance of the promises. This section is not necessary for the main argument of the Epistle, which would have been complete without it for an exposition of God's righteousness, Romans 12:1-21 . following naturally the conclusion of Romans 8:1-39 ., and these intervening chapters having no immediate connection with the preceding or succeeding context. But it was a subject too deeply fixed in St. Paul's mind... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 9:1-5

The sympathy of a Christian patriot. If our Christianity is genuine, it will not destroy our natural affections, but will purify and ennoble them. Domestic affection is all the stronger and the brighter under the influence of Christianity. The Christian patriot is the truest patriot. So it was with St. Paul. Because he had embraced, so to speak, a new religion, he does not turn in bitterness against his former coreligionists. Because he has become wiser than they, he does not look down... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 9:1-5

The honour of Israel. These verses open up to us the great problem discussed in the three following chapters, "the rejection of the elect people" (Godet). God had chosen his people; he now repudiates them. And as the apostle in the previous chapter has been transported into an ecstasy of exultation in contemplating the final victory of God's true people, he is now brought back to sorrow and pain of heart by a thought of the contrasted lot of Israel. "Who shall separate us from the love of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 9:1-5

Christian patriotism. We saw in last chapter how a "Paradise" may really be experimentally " regained, " and how Christian experience culminates in a triumphant assurance. But the apostle could not contemplate this as a mere personal matter. He could not rejoice in personal salvation and be indifferent to the salvation of his brethren. The case of his countrymen accordingly comes forward for review, and in the review of it the apostle is seen as the Christian patriot. Though the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 9:2-3

That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart . He does not say what for, leaving it to appear in what follows. The broken sentence is significant of emotion. For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh . None of the ways that have been suggested for evading the obvious meaning of this assertion are tenable. One such way is to take the imperfect ηὐχόμην as expressing what he once wished, viz. before his... read more

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

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 9:2

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 9:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 9:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 9:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 9:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 9:2-3

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