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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
That is, they which are the children of the flesh,.... This is an explanation of the foregoing verse, and shows, that by "the seed of" Abraham are meant, the natural seed of Abraham, who are born after the flesh, or descend from him by carnal generation: these are not the children of God; that is, not all of them, nor any of them, on account of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That is, thy flesh which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. Now, Isaac was not the child of Abraham’s flesh. He was born according to promise, when his mother was past age, and his father well stricken in years. His was the birth according to the promise, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son. And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; — When there were twins to be...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For this is the word of promise,.... The following passage is the Scripture, which contains the promise concerning the birth of Isaac; which was the produce, not of nature, but of divine grace and power; and was typical of the regeneration of God's elect, who "as Isaac was, are the children of promise", Galatians 4:28, for as Ishmael was a type of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this is the word of promise. At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son. And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And not only this,.... This instance of Ishmael and Isaac, is not the only one, proving that Abraham's natural seed, the children of the flesh, are not all children, the children of God: but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac, "it was said unto her", Romans 9:12, being in a parenthesis, "the elder shall serve the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For [the children] being not yet born, So says (h) the Chaldee paraphrast, "the prophet said unto them, was it not said of Jacob, עד דלא אתיליד, "when he was not yet born", that he should be greater than his brother?'' the Syriac version supplies, "his children", that is, Isaac's; and the Arabic version, "his two children". This shows, that the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. Here were two children born at the same time; yet Esau...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
It was said unto her,.... To Rebecca, Genesis 25:23, the elder shall serve the younger, or "the greater shall serve the lesser", an Hebrew way of speaking; so Japheth is called הגדול, "the great", or, as we render it, "the elder", Genesis 10:21; and the evil imagination is said (i) to be גדול, "greater", that is, elder than the good, thirteen...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
As it is written,.... In Malachi 1:2; Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. These words are explanative of the former; they are of like import, and the one interpret the other; and show, that the former are to be understood in a spiritual, and not in a temporal sense, and of the persons, and not the posterity of Jacob and Esau; for though...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
What shall we say then?.... A form of expression the apostle frequently uses, when he is about to introduce an objection, as is what follows: is there unrighteousness with God? This is not an objection of his own, but of an adversary, which he takes up and returns an answer to; and which itself greatly serves to settle and confirm the true sense...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. There is no unrighteousness, in anything that he does: and in the winding up of all affairs, it shall be seen that God was righteous as well as gracious.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. Paul knew very well that there would always be some who would cry out against this doctrine, that men would say that God was partial and unjust. If he had not foreseen that the declaration of this doctrine would provoke such remarks, he would not have put it so: “What shall we...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For he saith to Moses,.... That is, God said to Moses. The apostle goes on to answer to the above objections, by producing some testimonies out of the writings of Moses, in favour of both branches of predestination; showing, that the doctrine he had advanced, was no other than what God himself had delivered to Moses, whose name and writings were...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not or him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. That is where it must begin. When men are condemned, what can they appeal to, but the mercy of God? Where is the hope of men,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. You know that the modern way of meeting objections to Scripture is to give up everything to the infidel, and then say that you...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
So then it is not of him that willeth,.... This is not a consequence drawn by an adversary, showing that if this be the case, it signifies nothing for men to will or do, they may even sit still and do nothing, but depend on the mercy of God; but this is a conclusion of the apostle's from the above cited testimony, inferring from thence, that...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For the Scripture saith unto Pharaoh,.... אמר קרא, "The Scripture saith", is a Talmudic (l) way of speaking, used when any point is proved from Scripture; and is of the same signification with אמר רחמנא, "the merciful God says"; and so the sense of it here is, God said to Pharaoh; the testimony here cited, stands in Exodus 9:16; where it is read...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Paul is now going to show the other side of the same truth: “The scripture saith unto Pharaoh,” —