Romans 9:1

1. St. Paul’s great Grief at Israel’s Rejection , Romans 9:1-5 .

1. In Christ Some commentators have strangely rendered this as an oath by Christ. The phrase is parallel with in the Holy Ghost in this verse, and both are parallel to the phrases in Christ in a great number of passages.

The Christian, as such, is in Christ; his whole words and works are wrought in Christ. (See note on Romans 6:3.)

Lie not As doubtless the Jewish zealots in the synagogue disputes had often charged him with doing.

My conscience The moral self speaking within him.

In the Holy Ghost As if his moral being were imbued and impregnated by the Holy Spirit. To the Jews, therefore, he offered three witnesses: his moral man, his intellectual man, and God.