“ That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. ”
Great heaviness - Great grief. Continual sorrow - The word rendered “continual” here must be taken in a popular sense. Not that he was literally all the time pressed down with this sorrow, bu...
Sorrow over the Reprobation of the Jews. Paul's rapture passes into anguish at the exclusion of his kinsmen from this blessedness. So the second theme of the epistle comes into view; see Introd. §...
heaviness . sorrow. continual . Greek. adialeiptos. Only here and 2 Timothy 1:3 . sorrow . pangs. Greek. odune. Only here and 1 Timothy 6:10 .
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 d...
DISCOURSE: 1882 THE PRIVILEGES OF JEWS AND CHRISTIANS Romans 9:1-4 . I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I hare great heaviness an...
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow ('great grief and unceasing anguish') in my heart - the bitter hostility of his...
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...
(1-5) My heart bleeds for Israel, my country, that highly-privileged people. I could fain have changed places with them, and been myself cut off from Christ, if only they might have been saved.
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....
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, (2) That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. (3) For I could wish that myself were...
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 w...
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. Ver. 2. Continual sorrow ] Such as a woman in travail hath, οδυνη. So Galatians 4:19 .
The apostle having insinuated, Romans 3:3 , that God would cast off the Jews for their unbelief, a Jew is there supposed to object, that their rejection would destroy the faithfulness of God. To thi...
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...
Paul's Anxiety for the Jews. A. D. 58. 1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience a...
His grief for his nation and people he expresseth, 1. By the greatness of it; it was such as a woman hath in travail so the word imports. 2. By the continuance of it; it was continual, or with...
‘I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit, that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart, for I could wish that I myself were anathema...
CRITICAL NOTES Romans 9:1 . I speak in Christ the truth .—Not to be rendered, “I speak the truth in Christ.” The apostle, not as a man merely, but as a member of Christ, in His name, as His apos...
Romans 9:1-3 . I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that mys...
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...
The Distinction between the True and the False Israel. 9:1-13 The rejection of the Jews a matter of sorrow:
1 Samuel 15:35 ; Ezekiel 9:4 ; Isaiah 66:10 ; Jeremiah 13:17 ; Jeremiah 9:1 ; Lamentations 1:12 ; Lamentations 3:48 ; Lamentations 3:49 ; Lamentations 3:51 ; Luke 19:41-44 ; Philippians 3:...
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...
I have great sorrow — A high degree of spiritual sorrow and of spiritual Joy may consist together, Romans 8:39 . By declaring his sorrow for the unbelieving Jews, who excluded themselves from all...