Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Romans 9:1
The Rejection of the Jews
SUMMARY OF ROMANS 9: Paul's Deep Sympathy for His Nation. God's Promise
to the Jewish Race Not Void. The Argument That It Is Not. The
Promise Is Not to See According to the Flesh, but a. Spiritual Seed.
God Has a Right to Choose What Race He Will. As the Potter Has the
Right to Choose What Race He Will. As the Potter Has the Right to
Shape His Clay, So God Can Exalt or Reject a Race. The Acceptance of
the Gentiles and the Rejection of the Jews. Foretold. A Remnant of
Israel Saved.
To understand the reasoning of this chapter, the reader must keep in
mind the aim of the apostle. He had in the beginning of this letter
shown that the gospel was God's power of salvation "to the Jew first,
and also to the Greek" (Romans 1:16). But the Jews as a nation had
rejected Christ, and God had rejected them. They were soon to be
destroyed as a people and their land taken away. But the Jew fell back
on the promises made to Abraham. Has God broken his promises? If Christ
was the true Messiah, and the Jewish nation rejected, he held that the
promise was made void. To answer their objection Paul shows (1) that
the promise was not to all the fleshly seed of Abraham, but to the seed
according to the promise; and (2) that God, in his sovereignty, has the
right to choose a race or to pass it by at his will. The subject of
individual and personal election is not in the mind of the apostle, but
of the election of the Jews to be the chosen people, their rejection
afterwards, and the choice of the Gentiles. Isaac, Esau and Jacob are
the representatives of races.
I say the truth in Christ. This affirmation is made so solemn
because the Jews charged Paul with having forsaken his race.
My conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost. He speaks
as in the presence of Christ, with a conscience enlightened by the Holy
Spirit.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Romans 9:1
Romans 10:1
2 Thessalonians 2:13
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