For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
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Gill's Exposition
Who are Israelites,.... Which were their national name, as descended from Jacob, whose name was Israel; and it was accounted a very honourable one; see Phi 3:5; and the very name they bore gave the…
Barnes' Notes
For I could wish ... - This passage has been greatly controverted. Some have proposed to translate it, “I did wish,” as referring to a former state, when he renounced Christ, and sought to advance the…
Adam Clarke
For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ - This and the two preceding verses are thus paraphrased by Dr. Taylor: I am so far from insisting on the doctrine (of the rejection of the Jews)…
Cambridge Bible
I could wish Lit., I was wishing; the imperfect. A similar imperfect occurs Gal 4:20; where lit., "I was desiring." Without discussing the grammatical theory of the construction we may paraphrase, I…
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