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Israel’s Rejection of Christ

1 I atell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,  
2 athat I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart.  
3 For aI could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my1 countrymen according to the flesh,  
4 who are Israelites, ato whom pertain the adoption, bthe glory, cthe covenants, dthe giving of the law, ethe service of God, and fthe promises;  
5 aof whom are the fathers and from bwhom, according to the flesh, Christ came, cwho is over all, the eternally blessed God. Amen.  

Israel’s Rejection and God’s Purpose

6 aBut it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For bthey are not all Israel who are of Israel,  
7 anor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, b“In Isaac your seed shall be called.”  
8 That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but athe children of the promise are counted as the seed.  
9 For this is the word of promise: a“At this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son.”  
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Romans 9:2

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, but that whenever he thought on this subject, he had great grief; as we say of a painful subject, it is a source of constant pain. The cause of this grief, Paul does not expressly mention, though it is implied in what he immediately says. It was the fact that so large a part of the nation would be rejected, and cast off.




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