Romans 3:3

(c.) Yet without impeaching God’s faith unbelieving Jews are damned, (Romans 3:3-4 .)

3. For The apostle answers the secret objection which might arise in thought, that Christianity makes the gift of those oracles in reality a failure, and so invalidates the advantage of the Jew. He admits that on the human side there was a failure through unbelief; but that proves no failure on God’s part, and so no depreciation of the advantage. Man’s failures may defeat the gracious dispensations of God, but do not disprove nor diminish their original divine graciousness.

Some Alas! the great majority is to be included in this, the apostle’s gentle some.

Did not believe The past unbelief of the Jewish people is, most delicately, alone specified; but the total rejection by the Jews and of the Jews was included by terrible implication.

Unbelief… faith Man’s faithlessness and God’s faithfulness are here set in contrast. Both faiths were pledged in the Abrahamic covenant; man’s was broker and God’s maintained.

Without effect? And so prove the oracles of God to be a vain gift? The full advantage of the Jew as a beneficence from God stands therefore unimpeached by his wilful forfeiture of it. Be it noted that whether God’s side of the covenant was hereby broken is the question more fully discussed in Romans 9:6-14. And this passage conclusively proves that the exclusion of the rejected side in Romans 9:6-14, was based not on the “Divine Sovereignty,” but on their own unbelief.