(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;)
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Gill's Exposition
It was said unto her,.... To Rebecca, Gen 25:23,
the elder shall serve the younger, or "the greater shall serve the lesser", an Hebrew way of speaking; so Japheth is called "the great", or, as we…
Barnes' Notes
For the children being not yet born - It was not, therefore, by any works of theirs. It was not because they had formed a character and manifested qualities which made this distinction proper. It was…
Adam Clarke
For the children being not yet born - As the word children is not in the text, the word nations would be more proper; for it is of nations that the apostle speaks, as the following verses show, as…
The apostle, having made his way to that which he had to say, concerning the rejection of the body of his countrymen, with a protestation of his own affection for them and a concession of their…
Cambridge Bible
being not yet born, &c. Nothing could go beyond this verse in stating that the reasonsof the Divine Choice lie wholly within the Divine Mind, and not in the works and characters of the chosen.
the…
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