9: 2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
9: 3 For I was praying that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren’s sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
9: 4 who are Israelites; whose is the placement as sons, and the glory, and 117the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
117So ℵC 1739 33 81 1506 copbo arm vg. p46 B copsa read the covenant,
9: 5 whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ as concerning the 118flesh, who is over all, 119God blessed 120for ever. Amen
118Or, flesh; he who is over all. God be blessed for ever.
119Lit. a god
120Gk. unto the ages.
9: 6 But it is not as though the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel:
9: 7 neither, because they are Abraham’s seed, are they all children: but 121In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
121 Ge 21:12.
9: 8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh that are children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed.
9: 9 For this is the word of promise, 122According to this season will I come, and Sarah shall have a son,
122 Ge 18:10.
9: 10 And not only so; but Rebecca also having conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
9: 11 for the children being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth,
9: 12 it was said unto her, 123The elder shall serve the younger.
123 Ge 25:23.
9: 13 Even as it is written, 124Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.
124 Mal 1:2f.
9: 14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Be it not so.
9: 15 For he saith to Moses, 125I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.
125 Ex 33:19.
9: 16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that hath mercy.
9: 17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, 126For this very purpose did I raise thee up, that I might show in thee my power, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth.
126Ex 9:16.
9: 18 So then he hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he will he hardeneth.
9: 19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he still find fault? For who withstandeth his will?
9: 20 No but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?
9: 21 Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?
9: 22 What if God, 127willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction:
127Or, although willing
9: 23 128and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he afore prepared unto glory,
128So p46vid ℵA 1739 33 81 1506 and most lesser Gk. mss. B copsa arm vg omit and
9: 24 even us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
9: 25 As he saith also in Hosea, 129I will call that my people, which was not my people; And her beloved, that was not beloved.
129Hos 2:23.
9: 26 130And it shall be, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, There shall they be called sons of the living God.
130Hos 1:10.
9: 27 And Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, 131If the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved:
131Is 10:22f.
9: 28 for finishing it and cutting it short, the Lord will perform his word upon the earth.
9: 29 And, as Isaiah hath said before, 132Except the Lord of 133Hosts had left us a seed, We had become as Sodom, and had been made like unto Gomorrah.
132Is 1:9.
133Gk. Sabaoth (Hb. word, meaning hosts).
9: 30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:
9: 31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.
9: 32 Wherefore? 134Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;
134Or, Because doing it not by faith, but as it were by works, they stumbled at etc.
9: 33 even as it is written, 135Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence: And he that believeth on 136him shall not be put to shame.
135Is 28:16.
136Or, it
