And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.
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Gill's Exposition
Now the God of hope,.... This character is taken from the latter part of Rom 15:12, and is occasioned by it, "in him shall the Gentiles trust", or "hope"; and is proper to God as he is the author and…
Barnes' Notes
Esaias saith - Isa 11:1, Isa 11:10. There shall be a root - A descendant, or one that should proceed from him when he was dead. When a tree dies, and falls, there may remain a “root” which shall…
The apostle here returns to his exhortation to Christians. What he says here (Rom 15:7) is to the same purport with the former; but the repetition shows how much the apostle's heart was upon it.…
Cambridge Bible
a root Lit. the root. The quotation is from Isa 11:10: verbatim with LXX. The Heb. reads, "It shall come to pass … the root of Jesse, which standeth for an ensign of the peoples, unto it (or Him)…
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