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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 9
How the law of election (foreordination) operates—Israel chosen
(foreordained) to receive the adoption, the covenants, the promises, and the
blessings of the gospel; yet they are not all Israel, which are of
Israel—They must seek their blessings by faith—The Gentiles also
attain to righteousness and salvation by faith.
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1 I SAY the truth in
Christ, I alie not, my bconscience also
bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
2 That I have great heaviness and continual
sorrow in my heart.
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3 aFor I could wish that
myself were baccursed from Christ for my brethren, my
kinsmen according to the flesh:
4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth
the aadoption, and the glory, and the
bcovenants, and the giving of the law, and the service
of God, and the promises;
5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as
concerning the aflesh Christ came, who is over all,
God blessed for ever. Amen.
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6 Not as though the word of God
ahath taken none effect. For they are not all
Israel, which are of bIsrael:
7 aNeither, because they are
the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In
bIsaac shall thy seed be called.
8 That is, They which are the children of the
flesh, these are not the achildren of God: but the
children of the
promisea are counted for the seed.
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8a children of the promise
'The Promise' here references 'The Covenant' by way of authorized priesthood
ordinance coupled with the keeping of that covenant oath which bestowes the
promise of God. And that initial covenant ordinance is that of the baptism
of the water and of the spirit, which is the taking of the name of Christ
being burried with him in that death of the natural man which baptism does
represent and then being brought forth in that resurrection of newness of life
by and in and through the power of the Spirit unto the sanctification of
man.
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9 For this is the word of promise, At
this time will I come, and Sara shall have a ason.
10 And not only this; but when
aRebecca also had conceived by one, even by our
father Isaac;
11 (For the children being not yet
born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according
to aelection might stand, not of works, but of him that
calleth;)
12 It was said unto her, The
aelder shall serve the younger.
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13 As it is written, Jacob have I
aloved, but Esau have I hated.
14 What shall we say then? Is there
aunrighteousness with God? bGod forbid.
15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on
whom I will have mercy, and I will have acompassion on whom
I will have compassion.
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16 So then it is not of him that willeth,
nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth amercy.
17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even
for this same apurpose have I raised thee up, that I might
shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the
earth.
18 Therefore hath he amercy
on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he
nhardeneth.
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19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet
find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that
arepliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him
that formed it, Why hast thou bmade me thus?
21 Hath not the apotter
power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and
another unto dishonour?
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22 What if God, willing to shew
his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much
longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to adestruction:
23 And that he might make known the
ariches of his bglory on the vessels of
mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the
Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
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25 As he saith also in
aOsee, I will call them my people, which were not my
bpeople; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
26 And it shall come to pass, that in the
place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall
they be called the achildren of the living God.
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27 aEsaias also crieth
concerning Israel, Though the bnumber of the children of
cIsrael be as the sand of the sea, a
dremnant shall be saved:
28 For he will finish the work, and cut it
short in arighteousness: because a short work will the Lord
make upon the earth.
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29 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord
of aSabaoth had left us a bseed, we had
been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles,
which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even
the arighteousness which is of faith.
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31 But aIsrael, which
followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of
righteousness.
32 aWherefore? Because
they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law.
For they bstumbled at that stumblingstone;
33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a
astumblingstone and brock of
coffence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be
ashamed.
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