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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What shall we say then? Why, say this: — Rom_9:30. That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. For thousands of years they worshipped brutish idols and blocks and stones. Their philosophy was mixed with filthiness. Their lives were abhorrent to God. Even these...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness,.... The Israelites, the far greater part of the Jews, who were not called by the grace of God, were all very zealous of the law, called "the law of righteousness"; because the matter of it was righteous, it was so in its own nature; and because perfect obedience to it is righteousness; as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Israel followed after the law of righteousness with many ceremonies and external washings, and wearings of phylacteries and bordered garments. Alas poor Israel
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Wherefore? because they sought it not by faith,.... The question is asked, why they did not attain to that, which with so much diligence they pressed after? the answer is, because, as they did not seek for righteousness in a right place, or object, they sought for it in the law, and the works of it, where it is never to be found by a sinful...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: I say again that there have been great attempts made, with logical dynamite, to blow up this great rock of offence, and to clear away every...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling-stone; And God is determined that they that are of the law shall not inherit it. He has made it a sovereign decree that the believer shall be justified and saved, and none else. They sought it not by faith, But as it were by...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
As it is written,.... In Isaiah 8:14; for the beginning and end of this citation are out of the latter, and the middle of it out of the former. This is an instance of מדלג, "skipping", from place to place, concerning which the rules with the Jews were (s), that the reader "might skip from text to text, but he might not skip from prophet to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. But if they believe not on him, they shall one day be ashamed; and, meanwhile, the eternal purpose of God shall still stand, he shall still be glorious whatever men shall do, or shall not do.