Romans 9:2

That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Great heaviness - Great grief. Continual sorrow - The word rendered “continual” here must be taken in a popular sense. Not that he was litera...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 th...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

heaviness . sorrow. continual . Greek. adialeiptos. Only here and 2 Timothy 1:3 . sorrow . pangs. Greek. odune. Only here and 1 Timothy 6:...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1883 OUR DUTY TOWARDS THE JEWS Romans 9:1-5 . I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow ('great grief and unceasing an...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 ex...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(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...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 20 THE SORROWFUL PROBLEM: JEWISH UNBELIEF; DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY Romans 9:1-33 WE may well think that again there was silence awhile in t...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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 , th...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The connection between this very remarkable passage and the preceding climax is close. The great certainty of "no separation" is the experience of on...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 i...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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:...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 rejec...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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 w...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Paul's Anxiety for the Jews. A. D. 58. 1 I s...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 t...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘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 he...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Paul Is Concerned For Israel Because In Spite Of Their Many Advantages A Large Proportion of Them Have Rejected The Messiah Who Has Come From Among...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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-...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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, b...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
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Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Distinction between the True and the False Israel. 9:1-13 The rejection of the Jews a matter of sorrow:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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Wells of Living Water Commentary

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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² That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

Related Commentaries of Romans 9:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Romans 9:2