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Romans 9:4
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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.”  
10 And not only this, but when aRebecca also had conceived by one man, even by our father Isaac  
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John Wesley's Notes
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Romans 9:4

Whose is the adoption, etc. - He enumerates six prerogatives, of which the first pair respect God the Father, the second Christ, the third the Holy Ghost. The adoption and the glory - That is, Israel is the first - born child of God, and the God of glory is their God, Deuteronomy 4:7; Psalms 106:20. These are relative to each other. At once God is the Father of Israel, and Israel are the people of God. He speaks not here of the ark, or any corporeal thing. God himself is "the glory of his people Israel." And the covenants, and the giving of the law - The covenant was given long before the law. It is termed covenants, in the plural, because it was so often and so variously repeated, and because there were two dispositions of it, Galatians 4:24, frequently called two covenants; the one promising, the other exhibiting the promise. And the worship, and the promises - The true way of worshipping God; and all the promises made to the fathers.




Other John Wesley's Notes entries containing Romans 9:4:

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