“ As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. ”
As it is written - Malachi 1:2-3 . That is, the distribution of favors is on the principle advanced by the prophet, and is in accordance with the declaration that God had in fact loved the one a...
God's Free Election. Romans 9:6-9 . We must distinguish: to be of Israel, is not to be Israel. Mere physical heredity counts for nothing: Isaac was the proper seed of Abraham, designated as the c...
have . Omit. loved . Greek. agapao. App-135. See Deuteronomy 21:15 .
13. As it is written, Jacob I loved, etc. He confirms, by a still stronger testimony, how much the heavenly answer, given to Rebecca, availed to his present purpose, that is, that the spirit...
As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. As it is written ( Malachi 1:2-3 ), Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. It might be thought that there was a natural reaso...
The Rejection of Israel no Disparagement or Disproof of the Gospel The Apostle sorrows over the exclusion of Israel ( Romans 9:1-5 ), but their exclusion does not involve any breach of God's promi...
(6-13) Now follows a vindication of the dealings of God in rejecting Israel. And this is divided into three parts. Part 1 extends to the end of Romans 9:13 , and the object of it is to clear the way...
Chapter 20 THE SORROWFUL PROBLEM: JEWISH UNBELIEF; DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY Romans 9:1-33 WE may well think that again there was silence awhile in that Corinthian chamber, when Tertius had duly insc...
Longing for His Kinsmen Romans 9:1-13 Our consciences should be continually bathed in the light and warmth of the Holy Spirit, Romans 9:1 , that the inward witness may be maintained in its int...
The connection between this very remarkable passage and the preceding climax is close. The great certainty of "no separation" is the experience of one in close communion with the Lord experimentally....
Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: (7) Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall t...
THE STORY OF JACOB ‘Jacob have I loved.’ Romans 9:13 It has been said as a paradox that ‘there is nothing so disappointing as failure, except success.’ The study of the character of Jacob illu...
As it is written ,.... In Malachi 1:2 ; Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated . These words are explanative of the former; they are of like import, and the one interpret the other; and show,...
As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. Ver. 13. Esau have I hated ] i.e. I have not loved him, but passed him by; and this preterition is properly opposed to election....
For this is the word of promise To show that Isaac was a son of promise, (and so a meet type of those that should be begotten of God by the promise of the gospel through faith,) he cites the words...
What of God's Promises to Israel? Now, such being the case - that God had purposed in eternal counsel the blessing of Gentiles on an equal basis with Jews, as it is this day - what is to become of...
The Divine Sovereignty. A. D. 58. 6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. Fo...
The foregoing oracle is expounded by another, taken out of Zechariah 1:2,3 ; see the annotations there. Because the foregoing passage of Esau's serving Jacob doth not seem so full and clear, to be...
The Messsiah Has Come And Is For All. God Has Not Failed In His Promises To The True Israel. Salvation For All is Through Faith In The Messiah (9:1-11:36) Paul now expands on Chapter s 1-8, in whi...
CRITICAL NOTES Romans 9:13 . As it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated —There is no necessity to soften the “hated” into “loved less”; the words in Malachi proceed on the fullest meaning...
The Jews thought that God must certainly save them. They thought they had a birth claim. Were they not the children of Abraham? Surely they had some right to it. This chapter battles the question of...
Romans 9:1 . I say the truth in Christ, I lie not. These forms of speech are equivalent to a solemn oath, and emanate from a heart deeply imbued with the sentiments of the Saviour, who often wept...
EXPOSITION Romans 11:1-45 2. The present position and prospects of the Jewish nation con-sidereal. Romans 9:1-45 (1) Deep regret expressed for the present exclusion of the Jewish n...
An additional example of rejection:
Deuteronomy 21:15 ; Genesis 29:31 ; Genesis 29:33 ; John 12:25 ; Luke 14:26 ; Malachi 1:2 ; Malachi 1:3 ; Matthew 10:37 ; Proverbs 13:24
Hath God Cast Away His People? Romans 9:1-27 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. We have the depths of the heart of Paul toward the Jews. How the heart of the Apostle must have throbbed as he wrote, "I say...
As it is written — With which word in Genesis, spoken so long before, that of Malachi agrees. I have loved Jacob — With a peculiar love; that is, the Israelites, the posterity of Jacob. And I have,...